On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Dvir Oren wrote: > 1. I need /dev to be rw. You can for example keep the dev entries in /usr/dev, then mount a ramdisk as /dev and copy the device nodes over to the ramdisk. > 2. I can't have /etc/passwd (and the related files) read only, if I > want to add users, etc. I can't have them link to somewhere else, > passwd claims that it can't lock them. A possible solution is to keep the passwd and group databases on the server and export them to the clients using NIS. -- Greetings Pascal (email cobol@nord-com.net, netmail 2:241/215.72) =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Pascal Schmidt <cobol@nord-com.net> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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