From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 07:48:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD0716A4CE for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:48:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ares.wolfpond.org (ns1.wolfpond.org [62.212.96.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE2943D58 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:48:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ftigeot@wolfpond.org) Received: from ares.wolfpond.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ares.wolfpond.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2VFmExC052449; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:48:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from greywolf@ares.wolfpond.org) Received: (from greywolf@localhost) by ares.wolfpond.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i2VFmDAW052448; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:48:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from greywolf) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:48:13 +0200 From: Francois Tigeot To: Howard Jones Message-ID: <20040331154813.GA49436@ares.wolfpond.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: thinbsd@cogidis.com cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: login requirements? X-BeenThere: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:48:24 -0000 On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:50:09PM +0100, Howard Jones wrote: > > I'm building myself a DoM-booting FreeBSD 5.1 system, to replace some > aging Wyse WinTerms that we have around the office. I did this > successfully a couple of years ago with 4.5 with no trouble, so I know > it's basically good to go. > > I'm doing it by building up the minimum system to run the binaries I > need (sshd, ssh, X, rdesktop). It's all working fine except for login. > Does anyone know what the minimum file set for login actually is? So > far I've copied libpam.so, login itself, all the pam_*.so modules, > login.conf and the pam.d/* files. This is not the shortest list, but except for the ssh part this document should contain what you need : http://www.thinbsd.org/ThinBSD-filelist-2004-03-13.txt > [side question - the next stage after this is to try a pxeboot-based > version. I can't find much info about how to use a built-in md device > in a 5.x kernel though. Is this possible? I'd rather like to avoid > running an NFS server if I can...] I don't know if it is possible either, but you can definitely load a ramdisk image without a NFS server. In fact, it was one of the primary motivations behind a pet project of mine: ThinBSD, a FreeBSD based thin client system. The kernel and ramdisk are loaded from the pxe loader, via tftp. Check out http://www.thinbsd.org/ it seems like we have the same goals. -- Francois Tigeot