[H-GEN] Need help during install, or just after ;)

Robert Stuart rstuart at bssssq.edu.au
Fri Jun 12 19:28:10 EDT 1998


Martin Pool wrote:
> 
> >/ Should not be readonly as many /etc files (passwd for example) need to
> >be written to.

[snip]

> I guess passwd really ought to be in /var, but it's about
> twenty years too late to say that. :-/
> 

If the passwd/shadow files where in /var, might there not be problems
with root when trying to log in (in single user mode with a
corrupt/unmounted /var)?  What does the root password get checked
against?  [Although if the person has physical access to the machine,
then it hasn't done a lot for security anyhow].  


-- 
Robert Stuart
Ph  61-7-3864 0364

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