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Date:      Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:22:22 +0200
From:      Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To:        Kouichiro Iwao <meta@club.kyutech.ac.jp>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to deceive programs as if I were a local user?
Message-ID:  <20090425092222.GA75517@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090425083416.GA31588@club.kyutech.ac.jp>
References:  <20090423073229.GA87987@club.kyutech.ac.jp> <20090423091027.GA47290@ei.bzerk.org> <20090423181711.GH40655@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <20090425083416.GA31588@club.kyutech.ac.jp>

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On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 05:34:16PM +0900, Kouichiro Iwao typed:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:17:11AM -0700, Chris Cowart wrote:
> > This error means the program tried to look up some name information for
> > your UID number and failed. You need to configure the data source in
> > /etc/nsswitch.conf:
> > 
> > group: files cache ldap
> > passwd: files cache ldap
> 
> I've already set like you showed.
> But, not for /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf .
> 
> Configuring nsswitch.conf in linux emulation environment,
> the program worked properly.  I did't know I had to set 
> /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf for linux binary compatibility.

That's interesting. Was there a /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf before?
I think that if it's not there, the linux emulation layer should take
the system's /etc/nsswitch.conf as default. But I might be wrong(TM).




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