I stupidly gave a client a tarball of one of my filesystems so he could extract it onto his NFS server and serve it via NFS as the root filesystem of a machine he wants to boot disklessly. Unfortunately, I left all the authentication files such that he needs to know my local root passwd to use that filesystem, something I obviously want to avoid.
I'm therefore trying to figure out how to coach him through the process of making the correct changes (on his NFS server) such that root (on his NFS client machine) will have either no password or at least a different password. In the old days I'd have simply advised him to clear the password field in .../etc/passwd but it's apparently rather more involved now. Advice? The alternative is for me to change it on my local machine and ship him all 100Mb of filesystem all over again, something I'd really rather not have to do. The entry for root in .../etc/passwd is root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash and in .../etc/shadow it's (approximately) root:z8h4B3csHyu3g:11266:0:99999:7::: ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
