On Tue, Sep 08 2020, Richard Bucker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 don't understand why you expect this to work out of the box, for any chroot directory under your control. If you need to look up a passwd entry you should probably do that before calling chroot(2). This doesn't warrant a mail to bugs@ IMO. Maybe ask misc@ next time if you're unsure. -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
