From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 11 04:45:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE14216A420 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:45:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E34843D45 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:45:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s6so428787wxc for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:45:22 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YXMbhVzQ69oh49LQ9noCkMZTGJ7rzsJ1jISs6MIeIReGhxheU4SWrz7GKrboSTFgfOlXG0CYe90WVW5qhi/b5ZC95gzuHM0kuWBwMZ8WesV3nzzx9TGTdytd7Czqup/AQBlRBlEd+Pc132iCxkVeJl8x9J57cZAUlv8p91dx2U8= Received: by 10.70.133.4 with SMTP id g4mr158839wxd; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:45:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.58.15 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:45:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:45:21 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Robin Becker , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <43EB4FF1.60703@locolomo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <43EB4E9E.30502@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <43EB4FF1.60703@locolomo.org> Cc: Subject: Re: configure acls on remote machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:45:23 -0000 On 2/9/06, Erik Norgaard 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). -- --