Bob Byron wrote:
No, I haven't had the need to create a chroot shell before. So, I am simply
trying to setup the simplest configuration.
David Jackson wrote:
So, why does Fedora not see the passwd and group files?
Have you've gotten this to work on a stock Redhat box?
Of course it won't work. When you "chroot", you make the specified
directory the root of the filesystem. "chroot /usr/jail" means
that "/usr/jail" is now "/" for that shell. It CAN'T traverse back
up the directory tree to the normal /etc, since it doesn't exist for
this shell.
You'd need to copy /etc/passwd, /etc/group, etc. to /usr/jail for the
mnemonics to come up. This is exactly what you do when you set up a
"secure" anonymous FTP site.
Also note that any program that is NOT built into the shell will also
cease to work, since "/bin", "/usr/bin", etc. are also "above" the
chrooted root directory.
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