2008/7/28, D M <dm.mlist@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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. What is passwd section set to in nsswitch.conf? On my Debian testing system it's "compat": $ grep passwd /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd: compat Make sure you have the nss libraries available for the passwd entries. When I strace the command I have it checking for next libs: $ strace id -un 2>&1 | grep libnss open("/lib/i686/cmov/libnss_compat.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/lib/i686/cmov/libnss_nis.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/lib/i686/cmov/libnss_files.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 Cheers, VL