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On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:23:49 +0100 |
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James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> wrote: |
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> I did just have a lightbulb moment though. I've been playing with |
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> unshare recently and I wondered if we could leverage it here. |
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> $ sudo unshare -m /bin/sh -c "mount --bind /mnt/somewhere/etc /etc && groupadd foo" |
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> groupadd: Cannot determine your user name. |
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Aha! I was trying to do this against an NFS share for a system with a |
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different architecture. If I use a local mount with a compatible |
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architecture, it actually does work. I'll explore this some more. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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