Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:48:13 +0200 From: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org> To: Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com> Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: login requirements? Message-ID: <20040331154813.GA49436@ares.wolfpond.org> In-Reply-To: <D52F1CAC-828B-11D8-95A5-000A956A3900@thingy.com> References: <D52F1CAC-828B-11D8-95A5-000A956A3900@thingy.com>
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:50:09PM +0100, Howard Jones wrote: > > I'm building myself a DoM-booting FreeBSD 5.1 system, to replace some > aging Wyse WinTerms that we have around the office. I did this > successfully a couple of years ago with 4.5 with no trouble, so I know > it's basically good to go. > > I'm doing it by building up the minimum system to run the binaries I > need (sshd, ssh, X, rdesktop). It's all working fine except for login. > Does anyone know what the minimum file set for login actually is? So > far I've copied libpam.so, login itself, all the pam_*.so modules, > login.conf and the pam.d/* files. This is not the shortest list, but except for the ssh part this document should contain what you need : http://www.thinbsd.org/ThinBSD-filelist-2004-03-13.txt > [side question - the next stage after this is to try a pxeboot-based > version. I can't find much info about how to use a built-in md device > in a 5.x kernel though. Is this possible? I'd rather like to avoid > running an NFS server if I can...] I don't know if it is possible either, but you can definitely load a ramdisk image without a NFS server. In fact, it was one of the primary motivations behind a pet project of mine: ThinBSD, a FreeBSD based thin client system. The kernel and ramdisk are loaded from the pxe loader, via tftp. Check out http://www.thinbsd.org/ it seems like we have the same goals. -- Francois Tigeot
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