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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
1. Actually the symlinks to /etc/passwd and /etc/group are not used for anything at all at the moment. The files are there just as I am trying to get SSHD to work. SSHD requires the entries to manage userids, and my idea here was to symlink those from the Harmattan side so that I could reuse the Harmattan credentials on ubiboot domain. This is maybe a futile idea anyway, so the files are totally excess as of current. (meaning, just do not care if the links point to nothing at all...)
There is a similar situation when remote-unlocking an encrypted hard drive. In that scenario, passwd is empty and the auth is key-based. This may be feasible in this case.
 

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