auto login / remote logins / multi user

[Stefan Sperling]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 05:16:02PM +0800, Chris McCormick wrote:
> What about storing username/password in SDRAM?

Pepsiman suggested the obvious on IRC:

<pepsiman_> just make /etc/passwd a symlink


If we did this, we would still have a couple of
options regarding permissions:


We can mount vfat filesystems with file and directory
permissions set to 777 so any user can access /etc/passwd,
their /home directories and anything else on vfat.
The benefit is that this allows people to change the default
password to prevent others from logging in remotely without
having to guess a password.


We can mount vfat filesystems with file and directory
permissions set to 770 so any user in a certain group can access
/etc/passwd, their /home directories and anything else on vfat.


We can mount vfat filesystems with file and directory
permissions set to 700 so no user but root can access
/home directories and anything else on vfat.
/etc/passwd is writable by root only.


I guess vfat permission behaviour should be configurable
in /etc/rc.conf, with 777 as default...


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