On Fri, November 25, 2016 4:24 pm, trondd wrote: > On Fri, November 25, 2016 2:01 pm, Dave Cohen wrote: >> I'm new to `chroot`. Trying to make sandbox where I can build and run >> untrusted code without affecting the base system. >> >> Following instructions from >> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/karsten/entry/openbsd_chroot?lang=en, >> I am at the point where I can `doas chroot /jails/untrusted/` and I have >> root access to my chroot environment. So far, so good. >> >> Next I try to make a non-root user in the chroot environment, but run >> into >> trouble doing so. For example, this complaint that /etc/shells is >> missing: >> >> # adduser >> Couldn't find /etc/adduser.conf: creating a new adduser configuration >> file >> Reading /etc/shells >> /etc/shells: No such file or directory >> >> >> This is solved easily enough, copying /etc/shells from my base install >> to >> /jails/untrusted/etc/shells. But I quickly run into a similar problem >> because /etc/master.passwd is missing. >> >> I'm not sure I want to use the /etc/master.passwd from the base install >> in >> the chroot. Also, I suspect that I'll run into more problems like this. >> Have I missed a step in initializing my chroot directory? Is there a >> recommended way to create files like /etc/master.passwd the same as >> created by the openbsd installer? >> >> Thanks for any help! >> > > It's an old how-to. There are no etc sets anymore. Did you run sysmerge > in the chroot or otherwise extact the etc tarball out of the base > tarball? > > Also, depending on what you're trying to do in the chroot, maybe look into > leveraging proot from ports. >
And by "proot from ports" I mean ports/infrastructure/bin/proot. It's not a 3rd party package.
