Persistent Data Across Flashing
The following data is persistent across flashing:
- SSH host keys uniquely identify the system for all SSH connections.
- User account metadata files containing details and properties of each user account and
group.
/etc/passwd
: List of the system and local users./etc/group
: List local and system groups and user account membership information./etc/gshadow
and/etc/shadow
: Contain user account and hashed-password (using crypt)./etc/subgid
and/etc/subuid
: The range of group-ids and user-ids allowed for local user account and groups.