Moving user/group databases

[Derek Ragona]

At 03:52 PM 9/7/2007, jhall at vandaliamo.net wrote:
>All of my FreeBSD servers boot from CD, and we are going to be having
>several temporary employees coming and going over the next 6-12 months.
>Is it possible to move the user/group databases from their location in
>/etc (which is read only on my CDs) to another location?
>
>I have read the man page concerning pw and still do not understand what I
>should be doing.  Any suggestions, or direction to a how-to would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Jay

The simplest way would be to put a symbolic link from /etc to a writable 
location.  You will need to re-make your boot CD to have this change.

         -Derek

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