Marianne Spiller writes:
> Each zone has its own /etc, its own IP etc.
> Do I have to add each user within each zone?
> This seems very difficult to me, eg. if the user would
> change his password.

You can manage them in the same way you would multiple systems -- via
NIS, NIS+, or LDAP.

> And my zone cannot inherit /etc from the global zone
> because of the different IPs, can it?

It's not because of the different IP addresses, but rather because you
wouldn't be able to control the operation of the non-global zone if it
shared /etc with the global zone.

You could, if you wanted, set up lofs mounts from inside zonecfg (in
the global zone, of course) using "add fs" to inherit /etc/passwd and
related files from the global zone. I think that'd be a bit weird,
but it should work. The better answer is to set up a regular
directory server.

In fact, the environment inside non-global zones doesn't have the
ability to configure IP addresses at all, so those addresses don't
come from /etc or anywhere else inside the zone. They can't.
Instead, the zoneadmd process, running in the global zone, configures
the non-global zone IP addresses on behalf of the zone. It reads the
addresses from the (private, undocumented) /etc/zones/ database, which
is administered via zonecfg.

You can configure interface aliases manually into a non-global zone,
if you like, by using the ifconfig "zone" keyword. (The zeroth alias
is special, because you can't yet put an entire physical interface
into a zone. Only address aliases can go into a zone.)

> Can anyone please give me a hint - or a link where I can
> RTFM myself?

I think there are several zone-related documents on docs.sun.com and
on bigadmin. Have you looked there?

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