@janne ... thanks. that was it. I did manage to get pwd_mkdb to work. As an aside the help could use some improvement; but it did work!!
Thanks *--Richard Bucker * On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 10:45 AM Janne Johansson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > May the most significant bit of your life be positive. >
