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Re: other chroot things



On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:51:46PM +0000, Marco Tassinari wrote:
> >>  in a chroot environment with a local passwd and shadow and group files,
> >>  I cannot use users. Eg, in the chrooted bash, 'ls -l' returns 0 0 for
> >>  root.root files, 8.8 for mail.mail files... so my chrooted copy of
> >>  sendmail freezes.  It seems that the local passwd isn't there...
> >It seems that ls doesn't use pam. (see ldd, and also experiments show this.)
> >For me ls shows numbers, when /etc/passwd|group files are not 
> >present. Are you sure your copies are at the right place? (no 
> >symlinks of course)
> 
>  Mhhh... 
> let's try:
> 
> # chroot /var/users/
> # ls -la /etc
> 
> drwxr-xr-x    3 0        0            4096 Oct  5 14:44 .
> drwxr-xr-x   10 0        0            4096 Oct  5 14:37 ..
> -rw-r--r--    1 0        8              33 Oct  2 13:24 group
> drwxr-sr-x    3 8        8            4096 Oct  2 13:07 mail
> -rw-r--r--    1 0        8             230 Oct  3 15:52 passwd
> -rw-r-----    1 0        0             207 Oct  5 14:29 shadow
> 
> # cat /etc/passwd 
> 
> root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
> mail::8:8:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/bash
> pippo::100:100::/home/pippo:/bin/bash

ls requires /lib/libnss_files.so.2 in order to map uid/gids to
symbolic names.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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