[OpenAFS] Running AFS client on Linux chrooted]

[Nick Burrett]

Lukas Kubin wrote:
> By a mistake (new mail client) I didn't send my answer to the list. Here 
> it is including answer from James.E.Dobson:
> 
> lukas
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Running AFS client on Linux chrooted
> Date: 18 Dec 2003 10:06:42 EST
> From: James.E.Dobson@Dartmouth.EDU (James E. Dobson)
> Reply-To: James.E.Dobson@Dartmouth.EDU
> To: kubin@opf.slu.cz (Lukas Kubin)
> 
>> Thank you for your answer. Copying whole /var/chroot/sshd into AFS is 
>> agood idea. I will use it. However, it doesn't solve my problem. I 
>> didn't mention, I need write access into AFS from inside the chroot. 
>> So I need to run kinit and aklog which requires afsd running 
>> there.And, of course I need write access to AFS in the "normal" root too.
> 
> 
> No problem, once you get a token you can write to AFS. I boot machines 
> from a kernel inside AFS and then chroot to AFS. Works fine. Setup 
> chroot in afs, mount your root.afs and put all binaries and libraries 
> that you need into AFS. Your afsd will work fine from chrooted environment.

How do you deal with entries in /dev such as zero, random, urandom and 
the ttys ?


Regards,

Nick.