Re: passwd in chroot / You may not view or modify password information for USER

["Nelson Castillo" <nelsoneci@gmail.com>]

On 2/25/07, Andy Smith <andy@lug.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:36:16PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote:
> > On 2/23/07, Andy Smith <andy@lug.org.uk> wrote:
> > >On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:35:18PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote:
> > >> CHROOT> passwd userx
> > >> passwd: You may not view or modify password information for userx.
> > >
> > >Er, you ARE doing that as root, right?
> >
> > Yes :) The only special thing is that I'm inside a chroot. The "host"
> > is a  Fedora C5 server running Linux 2.6.16.  And that I dist-upgraded from
> > sarge to etch.
>
> Sorry, had to ask :)
>
> That is very odd.  Could you strace the passwd command inside the
> chroot and post a link to the results? (-o to send output to a file)


The partition in which the chroot is is not mounted with the nodev option.
It's mounted with ext3,defaults, just as / is.

This is the strace I got:

http://wiki.superservicios.gov.co:81/~n/strace.txt

Thanks.

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