Re: Poor Man's XT doc (pre-releace)
>>The X protocol does Audio. For floppy disks you need to have some sort of
>>setup for mounting them. Maybe NBD would help for this...
>
>NBD?
Network Block Device. It's a new feature in 2.1 kernels that allows you to
mount a block device from another machine over a network (you need the nbd
daemon for the server machine though - IE the machine with the floppy drive).
NBD will not solve the authentication problems by itself. Anyway the kernels
I've been giving you have NBD compiled in. Have a play with it.
>IMHO, use of diskettes is going to make things awkward for and X-Terminal,
>because access needs to be authenticated... Maybe this is where NDB
>fits it (what is NBD), however I tend to avoid using floppy disks
>whenever possible (they always seen to be too unreliable).
True.
>>>/etc requires write access in order to allow local-logins (I think),
>>>as libc6 creates a file called /etc/.pwd.lock (YUCK!). (I am not
>>>absolutely certain that this is still the case, however I did see
>>>a bug reported against libc6 that this file is never deleted).
>>
>>On my system /etc/.pwd.lock is dated the 11th of July. I guess it doesn't
>>need to be writable.
>
>I suspect that .pwd.lock has been removed in latest versions of libc6,
>(I doubt there ever was any need for it), but
>you would need to delete it and see if it is re-created...
>
>I remember sometime ago that somebody filed a bug report against
>the package that contains /bin/login, saying it didn't allow logins
>when /etc was mounted read-only, and the response was that /etc cannot
>be mounted ro because libc6 required /etc/.pwd.lock (or something
>similar).
I deleted it from my system yesterday. It hasn't come back...
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