Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:13:14 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: jhall@vandaliamo.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving user/group databases Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070907161149.025a9ad8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <1756.12.170.206.13.1189198324.squirrel@admintool.trueband. net> References: <1756.12.170.206.13.1189198324.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net>
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At 03:52 PM 9/7/2007, jhall@vandaliamo.net wrote:
>All of my FreeBSD servers boot from CD, and we are going to be having
>several temporary employees coming and going over the next 6-12 months.
>Is it possible to move the user/group databases from their location in
>/etc (which is read only on my CDs) to another location?
>
>I have read the man page concerning pw and still do not understand what I
>should be doing. Any suggestions, or direction to a how-to would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Jay
The simplest way would be to put a symbolic link from /etc to a writable
location. You will need to re-make your boot CD to have this change.
-Derek
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