On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 13:41 -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote: > I've run into a bootstrapping issue when using sbrsh and I was wondering > how other people had dealt with it. > > As I'm building my system, (from scratch), one of the things I need to > do is create a /etc/passwd for my target. As soon as I do that, I've > trashed whichever /etc/passwd was there previously. Since sbrsh relies > on the previous version, (the one with my uid listed), installing the > new /etc/passwd breaks the sbrsh mechanism. > > So I'm wondering, how have other folks worked around this particular issue?
sbrsh (version 6 and higher) itself doesn't require anything from your /etc/passwd, but you need to have an user account there for things to work nicely on the target system in general. I don't think there is any other easy way than to keep the user account there temporarily. After all, we would need at least a patched libc and/or a custom nss module along with a custom nsswitch.conf on the target to work around that, and it would be even worse. timo _______________________________________________ Scratchbox-users mailing list Scratchbox-users@lists.scratchbox.org http://lists.scratchbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scratchbox-users
