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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:31:07AM +0100, Mathieu L. wrote:
> ok, just in case anyone would be interested, the resolving issue (ie "I
> have no name!" prompt) I had with this chroot was only due to one
> missing lib not returned by ldd; and the winner is:
> libnss_files.so !! :)

For the record, the reason why is well-documented in "man nsswitch.conf".

And, in fact, you might be able to eliminate your need for many run-time 
dynamically-linked /lib/libnss_*.so.2 files by tightening up 
/etc/nsswitch.conf to look like this:

passwd:         files
group:          files
shadow:         files
hosts:          files
networks:       files
ethers:         files
protocols:      files
rpc:            files
services:       files

That changes the default by not referencing 
/lib/libnss_{compat,nis,dns}.so.2 so you only need 
/lib/libnss_files.so.2 for all services.

Seth

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