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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: James Bowman <jamesb@acelere.net>
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Subject: Re: Diskless with read-only /etc?
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On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:07:41PM -0600, James Bowman wrote:
> I'm running a diskless 5.2-CURRENT, and it has a read-only /etc.  sshd ca=
n't
> start, because it can't create /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.
>=20
> I can work around this myself, of course, but is there a better way?

See diskless(8) - the standard configuration uses a md-based /etc.

Kris

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