> Hi Everybody !
>
> Sorry if thatīs a bit off-topic from the kernel issues, but itīs 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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