Re: /etc/passwd thoughts

[Warren Togami <wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 06/12/2009 04:20 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Warren Togami (wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org) said:
>> [warren@newcaprica dracut]$ grep -r \/etc\/passwd *
>> modules.d/95nfs/install:dracut_install /etc/netconfig /etc/passwd
>> /etc/services
>> modules.d/95nfs/install:#echo
>> "rpc:x:32:32:Rpcbind:/var/lib/rpcbind:/bin/false">>
>> "$initdir/etc/passwd"
>> modules.d/90mdraid/install:inst /etc/passwd
>>
>> It seems that we want an /etc/passwd for certain things in the initrd
>> image, but is it really necessary for it to copy whatever users are on
>> the generating system into the image?
>
> If daemons we want/need to start want to drop privleges... yes.
>

But it is also pulling in user accounts.

It seems the above modules.d/95nfs/install creates its own /etc/passwd 
entry that it expects to be there.  Why can't we do this for all cases 
where something in the initrd needs an /etc/passwd entry?

Warren Togami
wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
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