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DateMon, 27 Jan 1997 08:23:54 +0100 ()
FromHugo Van den Berg <>
SubjectRe: Partially variable Password Files - is it possible ?!?
On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Stefan Bosnjakovic wrote:

> Hi Everybody !
> 
> Sorry if that´s a bit off-topic from the kernel issues, but it´s a quite important question for me:
> 
> I would like to mount the root partition read-only, for security reasons - the box in question
> is under heavy hacking attacks, but I need to append to and change the user-part of the password
> and the shadow file via telnet every now and then.
> 
> The ideal way would be to have one part of those file, containing the root and system accounts, on the
> read-only root partition and appand the variable part via an include directive from a writeable filesystem.
> 
> Any ideas how to solve that ?

You might try NIS. That's not the most secure solution, but it does work
with appends to the password file.


> Any thoughts welcome !
> 
> Cheers, Stefan !
> 
> stefan@nces.co.at
> 
> Sorry for wasting bandwidth !
> 

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