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interresting aproach. |
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this could work. however, i can see a few limitations: |
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- you must be root. |
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- this is specific to linux as of today. |
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- if you want to hide the mechanism, i don't see how without doing the same portage modifications as in my solution. |
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but this is maybe worth investigating. my solution isn't perfect too, I admit. |
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En date de : Ven 30.3.18, James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> a écrit : |
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Objet: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re : Modification proposal for user/group creation when ROOT!="/" |
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À: gentoo-dev@l.g.o |
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Date: Vendredi 30 mars 2018, 21h56 |
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:47:20 |
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+0100 |
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James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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> On Fri, 30 Mar |
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2018 20:23:49 +0100 |
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> James Le Cuirot |
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<chewi@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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> > I did |
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just have a lightbulb moment though. I've been playing |
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with |
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> > unshare recently and I |
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wondered if we could leverage it here. |
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> > $ sudo unshare -m /bin/sh |
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-c "mount --bind /mnt/somewhere/etc /etc && |
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groupadd foo" |
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> > groupadd: |
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Cannot determine your user name. |
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> Aha! I was trying to do this against an |
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NFS share for a system with a |
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> different |
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architecture. If I use a local mount with a compatible |
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> architecture, it actually does work. |
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I'll explore this some more. |
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Figured it out! The system I was doing this |
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against has an ancient |
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glibc (long story) |
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with an old nsswitch.conf. I replaced this file with |
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a newer one and it all started working. Do you |
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agree this could be the |
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way forwards? |
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-- |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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