Den tis 8 sep. 2020 kl 16:31 skrev Richard Bucker <[email protected]>:
> After reading the refs on submitting bug reports I believe this is the
> correct way to present it as it's probably a design issue and may be
> subjective as I know I do not know the whole system. So I will generalize
> in the hopes that I'm wrong.
>
> Everything starts with "my application"...
> - chroot("some existing folder")
> - mygetpwnam_r() to get the current user which should be userid=0 or root.
>
> when mygetpwnam_r runs it returns an error that the user could not be
> found.
> I created an etc directory and put a passwd file in there with a record for
> the root/0. But that returned the same error.
>
> So I copied the /etc/pwd.db to my etc folder... and it worked.
> One thing I thought... it might be useful to create an empty file but that
> was not helpful. (pwd_mkdb)
>
You should probably have run pwd_mkdb on a skeleton/minimal "master.passwd"
file, to
generate the *pwd.db files, and possibly with a -p to make a legacy
"passwd" in case
some program needs it.
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