On 2012-04-04, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:08:37 -0400 > Michel Blais wrote: > >> I have create a chroot with scp and needed library for it but when I try >> to copy a file with scp, I always get the error "unknown user UID" after >> succefully entering the password. I can't find anything for this error >> exept for Linux. There also nothing in authlog, only successful >> connection messages.
Probably need at least pwd.db (and passwd is probably not necessary). ktrace should tell you more. > You probably need a shell and maybe a /etc/passwd and a few other > things like /dev/log. If you use sftp instead of scp you shouldn't need > either, nor a tty, allowing read only root too. This is obviously the client not the server. The sftp client needs more than scp (termcap etc).