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Sebastian Beßler posted on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:24:55 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> Your way looks quite nice, I will look into it when I am back home. Btw. |
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> the ubuntu manpage of chroot (at work I use ubuntu) does not mention |
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> --userspec (or maybe I am still to dumb to use man ;-) |
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It's possible the --userspec option is relatively new to chroot, tho I'd |
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not expect so. FWIW I'm using ~amd64, so have never versions of a lot of |
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packages than stable will. |
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It's also possible that ubuntu is using an old (or possibly POSIX-only) |
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manpage. What does chroot --help list? Here, --userspec is the first |
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option listed (the other one besides help and version being --groups, |
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which takes a list of supplementary groups that the user will appear in, |
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while in the chroot). |
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One thing that's unclear to me is whether the userspec and groups |
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parameters use the IDs from the running system or the chroot, tho I |
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suspect it's the running system (I started with the same passwd, etc files |
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in both, here, because as I said I need a full config for my usage and |
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that was most convenient). |
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I did notice that I had to use the actual UID:GID numbers, altho the |
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manpage said names should work too. I figured that was due to some |
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vagaries of configuration, but finding and using the numbers was no big |
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deal, so I didn't worry about it. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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