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.
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Ethan Benson
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