Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 21:51:43 -0000 (GMT) From: jhall@vandaliamo.net To: "Derek Ragona" <derek@computinginnovations.com> Cc: jhall@vandaliamo.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving user/group databases Message-ID: <2153.12.170.206.13.1189201903.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070907161149.025a9ad8@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <1756.12.170.206.13.1189198324.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20070907161149.025a9ad8@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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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 > > -- > 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. > > I have recreated the CD with the sym links, and I still run into a problem because adduser tries to create temporary files in /etc. If I remember correctly, the files it tries to create are /etc/passwd.XXXXXX. I was able to get pw to work to add the user accounts, but now I am trying to set the password for new account, and have hit the temp file snag. Is this something which can be reconfigured in pw.conf? Thanks, Jay
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