From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 7 21:13:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B60DF16A417 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 21:13:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4973313C48A for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 21:13:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l87LDcad041516; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 16:13:39 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20070907161149.025a9ad8@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:13:14 -0500 To: jhall@vandaliamo.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <1756.12.170.206.13.1189198324.squirrel@admintool.trueband. net> References: <1756.12.170.206.13.1189198324.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Moving user/group databases 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: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:13:58 -0000 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.