Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:46:34 +0200 From: Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Separate password files on diskless boxes? Message-ID: <20051017204634.42bca795.molter@tin.it> In-Reply-To: <20051017134257.GA74997@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20051017134257.GA74997@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:42:57 -0400 "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> wrote: > I'm using nanobsd.sh on 6.0RC to provide a small world for diskless > boxes. These are for small single-purpose machines -- i.e., DNS > server, FTP server, etc, served off read-only NFS. Nothing exciting > there, it just works. > > The last problem I'm having is the password file. I need to assign > separate password files to each, and separate root passwords on each > diskless station. The problem, of course, is the MFS /etc, so changes > are not permanent. > > Is there any way to make passwd(1) talk to a different password file? > I really don't want to use read/write mounts on my NFS server. Or, > has anyone come up with a clever way to do this? All the tutorials in > Google talk about using the server's password file, which I > specifically don't want to do... you can use the /conf override directory as explained in man diskless: /conf/default/10.0.0.1/etc/master.passwd /conf/default/10.0.0.1/etc/passwd /conf/default/10.0.0.2/etc/master.passwd /conf/default/10.0.0.2/etc/passwd and so on. marco -- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson
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