2008/7/23, D M <dm.mlist@xxxxxxxxx>: > OS: RHEL5.2 > Openssh: 5.0p1 and now 5.1 > > I have successfully setup a chroot jail using openssh's new native > jail support and almost everything appears to be working > (ls,cd,cat,uname,etc,ect). However I can't run any commands that > identify the user.. such as ld -un whoami logname. They all fail with > this result: > > #whoami > whoami: cannot find name for user ID 503 > #id > uid=503 gid=504 groups=504 > #id -un > id: cannot find name for user ID 503 > 503 > #logname > 503 > > i've made sure that /etc/passwd and even /etc/group are in the jail > with the proper permissions but still I get the same result.. Any > suggestions?? I wonder if you are missing NSS (/etc/nsswitch.conf) in your jailed system? I would also check it with strace, like: strace id -un Although that would probably require setting up strace which might be too expensive to set up in a jailed system. Cheers, VL Regards, VL
