Bug#728753: mock: should create mock system group and directories

What's the status of this bug? I was just hit by this bug only to and was surprised to discover that the bug report is actually quite old. Happy to test any fixes. Taylor

Bug#535905:

Any update on this? shellinabox is a great application used by many. I know from experience that it works very well on i386, amd64, and armel (and have no reason to believe it would not work equally well on the other Debian-supported architectures).