Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 1997 08:23:54 +0100 () | From | Hugo Van den Berg <> | Subject | Re: Partially variable Password Files - is it possible ?!? |
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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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