Thanks to everybody that posted suggestions.
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> On 12/9/08, Dominic Coulombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Would it be a better solution to have a local, read write /etc disk with
>> some symbolic links pointing to the "secured" files I want to be identical
>> between two clones ? I am open to other suggestions as well.
Unionfs. http://www.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 17:16, Edmund R. MacKenty <
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> I do things almost this way in some filesystem layouts of my Provisioning
> Expert product: I put /etc on a writable filesystem and populate it with
> symlinks to a read-only filesystem. But for certain fil
Hi,
Bind mounting the whole /etc directory does work fine. So does mounting a
disk containing only the /etc fs.
Thanks for your input.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 17:09, Richard Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sym-links should work initially. But consider bind mounting /etc from
> a R/W point
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You may find some of the documents in this google search helpful:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=k7&q=nfs+shared+root+filesystem&btnG=Search
In particular, the second hit on that page "Share
On Tuesday 09 December 2008 16:50, Dominic Coulombe wrote:
>* Short story *
>Is it possible to relocate /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group files ?
You're right: you can't change the location of those files without rebuilding
pwutils with a different pathname. I forget where the code for getp
Sym-links should work initially. But consider bind mounting /etc from
a R/W point such as /local/etc (for example).
Changing passwords locally requires other files under /etc, so simply
sym-linking does not solve all your problems, but a bind mount /etc
goes much further.
On 12/9/08, Domini
Hi,
* Short story *
Is it possible to relocate /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group files ?
* Long story *
I am building a system based on SLES10-SP2 with a read only root fs. My
work is based on the Redpaper REDP-4322-00, "Sharing and maintaining Linux
under z/VM". Very inspiring work. Th
