Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:45:21 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: configure acls on remote machine Message-ID: <d7195cff0602102045k79566969w41e126226da70368@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43EB4FF1.60703@locolomo.org> References: <43EB4E9E.30502@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <43EB4FF1.60703@locolomo.org>
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On 2/9/06, Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> wrote: > Robin Becker wrote: > > I see possible options as > > 1) switch to single user mode somehow and then unmount /home and > > configure acls with tunefs > > > > 2) su to root > > kill processes using /home > > do the umount and so on with /home unmounted. > > remount /home > > > > I imagine it might be quite hard to do 1 and 2 seems difficult unless I > > have an ssh to a home folder which isn't under /home. > > Why don't you just create a user for this specific task with home dir on > some other partition? Then you will ssh to a folder not under /home and > you can do 2). > In my experience, once your login shell has read its environment there is no harm in taking /home out, fiddling with it, and putting it back. Even logging in to a machine with home unmounted has the reasonalby minimal effect of putting you in / and giving you the bog standard environment (/etc/dot.cshrc or /etc/dot.profile). -- --
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