Bug#93362: getpwuid() doesn't work
On Mon Apr 09, 2001 at 12:33:33AM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: N/A; reported 2001-04-09
> Severity: critical
>
> This is the root cause of the 'id -u' problem. I don't believe the problem is
> with busybox, I think we are missing something on our filesystem, a library, a
> config file, I don't know which.
The problem was that in busybox 0.50 I changed the default
BusyBox compile from 'USE_SYSTEM_PWD_GRP = false' to
'USE_SYSTEM_PWD_GRP = true'. This is a sane default,
but means that glibc based systems then have to have
the nss libraries installed. For the boot floppies
we don't want that.
I will be uploading busybox 0.51 later today which will
force USE_SYSTEM_PWD_GRP=false in debian/rules for
busybox, which will fix this problem.
-Erik
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Erik B. Andersen email: andersee@debian.org, andersen@lineo.com
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