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Re: Symlinking /etc/passwd?



On 06.12.06 04:24, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> I'm setting up a box that is mostly going to be chroot environments, stored
> in a partition in /var. I would like to move /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to
> /var so that I can hardlink them into my chroot environments. Is it safe to
> do this, and make /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow symlinks to the new location?

I would create special,stripped /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow for those
environments. Should be ok unless you want all changes in passwd/shardow to
be reflected there.
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