here is a listing of my etc directory inside the jail: ls -la total 916 drwxr-xr-x 3 0 0 4096 Jul 28 14:31 . drwxr-xr-x 18 0 0 4096 Jul 28 14:35 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 11 Jul 22 17:00 group -r-------- 1 0 0 555 Jul 28 14:31 gshadow -rwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 245 Jul 22 17:00 hosts -rwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 24120 Jul 22 17:00 ld.so.cache -rwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 28 Jul 22 17:00 ld.so.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Jul 22 17:00 ld.so.conf.d -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 1696 Jul 22 17:00 nsswitch.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 144 Jul 24 17:04 passwd -rwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 66 Jul 22 17:00 resolv.conf -r-------- 1 0 0 1607 Jul 28 14:30 shadow -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 807103 Jul 22 17:00 termcap As you can see all required files are there and have proper permissions. I've copied over everything from /usr/lib into the jail as well. However is still not properly doing the translation of uid to name or guid to name. dm On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 06:24:20PM -0500, D M wrote: >> Yeah I though maybe permissions but I also adjusted those. This is >> whats really strange look at the output of this: >> >> #ls -la /etc >> total 900 >> drwxr-xr-x 3 0 0 4096 Jul 24 17:04 . >> drwxr-xr-x 17 0 0 4096 Jul 22 17:00 .. >> -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 11 Jul 22 17:00 group > >> it doesn't even seem to be able to translate the name/groups in the >> directory listing. > > ls calls upon getpwuid() to convert the numeric UID and GID into > human-readable names like "root". getpwuid() and friends are libc > functions that use OS-specific methods to do the lookups. > > On most modern systems, it will look for /etc/nsswitch.conf first, and > that will tell it what overall scheme is being used for the mapping > (NIS, NIS+, regular passwd files, etc.). Based on that, it will consult > the appropriate scheme's resources (/etc/passwd, or open a connection to > ypbind, or whatever) to get the actual answers. > > So, as others have already said, you need to ensure that the following > files exist and are readable WITHIN the chroot jail: > > /etc/nsswitch.conf > /etc/passwd > /etc/group > > There may or may not be others, depending on your OS and how you > configured things. For example, on Linux, you might also need an > /etc/shadow file. On OpenBSD, you might also need an /etc/master.passwd > file which is then converted into an /etc/pwd.db file. And so on. >
