login requirements?

[ho...@thingy.com]

Hi,

I'm building myself a DoM-booting FreeBSD 5.1 system, to replace some
aging Wyse WinTerms that we have around the office. I did this
successfully a couple of years ago with 4.5 with no trouble, so I know
it's basically good to go.

I'm doing it by building up the minimum system to run the binaries I
need (sshd, ssh, X, rdesktop). It's all working fine except for login.
Does anyone know what the minimum file set for login actually is? So
far I've copied libpam.so, login itself, all the pam_*.so modules,
login.conf and the pam.d/* files.

What I get is a message about "chunk already freed" whenever I attempt
to login, either on console, or over telnet/ssh. I assume that
something else is required and missing, but I can't figure out what -
any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Howard

[side question - the next stage after this is to try a pxeboot-based
version. I can't find much info about how to use a built-in md device
in a 5.x kernel though. Is this possible? I'd rather like to avoid
running an NFS server if I can...]

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[fti...@wolfpond.org]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:50:09PM +0100, Howard Jones wrote:
>
> I'm building myself a DoM-booting FreeBSD 5.1 system, to replace some
> aging Wyse WinTerms that we have around the office. I did this
> successfully a couple of years ago with 4.5 with no trouble, so I know
> it's basically good to go.
>
> I'm doing it by building up the minimum system to run the binaries I
> need (sshd, ssh, X, rdesktop). It's all working fine except for login.
> Does anyone know what the minimum file set for login actually is? So
> far I've copied libpam.so, login itself, all the pam_*.so modules,
> login.conf and the pam.d/* files.

This is not the shortest list, but except for the ssh part this document
should contain what you need :

http://www.thinbsd.org/ThinBSD-filelist-2004-03-13.txt

> [side question - the next stage after this is to try a pxeboot-based
> version. I can't find much info about how to use a built-in md device
> in a 5.x kernel though. Is this possible? I'd rather like to avoid
> running an NFS server if I can...]

I don't know if it is possible either, but you can definitely load a
ramdisk image without a NFS server.

In fact, it was one of the primary motivations behind a pet project of
mine: ThinBSD, a FreeBSD based thin client system.

The kernel and ramdisk are loaded from the pxe loader, via tftp.

Check out http://www.thinbsd.org/ it seems like we have the same goals.

--
Francois Tigeot