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From: Mark Dierolf <mark@×××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] move shadow's passwd to / from /usr
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 00:00:56
Message-Id: 200410051700.52172.mark@3e0.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] move shadow's passwd to / from /usr by Mike Frysinger
1 I think this is a good idea, for example, on some systems /usr is nfs mounted
2 or on another disc partition.
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4 Mark Dierolf
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6 On Tuesday 05 October 2004 4:25 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote:
7 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64441
8 >
9 > the question is, should we move passwd to /bin/ from /usr/bin/ ? it would
10 > help when trying to fix a lost root's password ...
11 >
12 > FHS has nothing to say about it, and our policy on / is to only utilize
13 > things that 'aid in system recovery', and i think this falls under that
14 > category (bum fsck on / requires you to enter the root password for example
15 > in order to login and fix)
16 >
17 > if no one has any interesting input, i'll go ahead with the change
18 > -mike
19 >
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