On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:28:19AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:58:55PM +0300, Sergei I. Kononov wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 03 at 20:23:20 (+0100), Christoph Berg wrote: > > > > > What's the difference to makejail and debootstrap? > > > > 1. Created chroot enviroment use less disk space, and does not > > include not needed files/dirs (like: passwd, > > Actually, that /is/ a needed file. Some programs look up the name of a > user before doing stuff (or look up the UID of a username), and without > that file they do very strange things
Surely nsswitch should be able to handle things across a chroot, providing the relevant communication channels are available. IMO, any program that directly accesses /etc/passwd to find a user has a bug. - Matt
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