Hard link /etc/passwd

[William Dieter]

You have to be careful when doing maintenance.  For example, if you do:

mv /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.bak
cp /etc/passwd.bak /etc/passwd

all of the copies will be linked to the backup copy.  Normally you 
might not do this, but some text editors sometimes do similar things 
silently...

A symbolic link might be safer.

Bill.

On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 11:20 PM, Justin Cook wrote:

> Good day,
> I have an 11 node diskless cluster.  All slave node
> roots are under /tftpboot/node1 ... /tftpboot/node2
> ... so on.  Is it safe to hard link the /etc/passwd
> and /etc/group file to the server nodes for
> consistency across the network?

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