On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:51:04PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20041021221715.GA4730_at_odin.ac.hmc.edu> > Brooks Davis <brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net> writes: > : On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 03:06:23PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > In message: <20041021152920.GB1811_at_rogue.acs.lan> > : > Mike Makonnen <mtm_at_identd.net> writes: > : > : devfs can't be > : > : run before NETWORKING because it depends on at least one binary in > : > : /usr/sbin. See my patch and reply to Andre. > : > > : > which one? devfs is in /sbin. > : > : It looks like chown. That one always suprises me even though I've hit > : it a number of times. I think this is because you can't safely do > : anything involving user names before you have working directory services > : and you can't be sure you have those before you have user. Hmm, I > : wonder what happens if you try to use chown when you have nss configured > : to use a directory, but don't have /usr mountd. > > Maybe that's why the LOGIN thing was there before :-( mountcritremote should be sufficent. LOGIN is way later then needed. A quick test on a 6.x machine with some users in /etc/password and some in NIS indicates that chown behaves reasionably in single user mode without /usr mounted. I could change a file to operator since it's in /etc/passwd, but not to brooks since I'm only in the NIS database. I got an invalid argument error when I tried. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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