[systemd-devel] CoreOS Goal Question: Should we be aiming to be able to boot with an empty /etc?

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 02:54:49PM +0100, Peeters Simon wrote:
>  - Some files are needed quiet hard (passwd, group, shadow ,...)

  That's not really true, as any consumer of those files should go through
getpwname() and similar functions.  And glibc implementation of those functions
could be made to check some distro-default accounts in /usr/share ...
  Something like this is done by tcb (http://www.openwall.com/tcb/). tcb is
quite cool, by the way, it replaces /etc/shadow with bunch of files
accessible by respective users.

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