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Date:      Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:12:31 +0900
From:      Kouichiro Iwao <meta@club.kyutech.ac.jp>
To:        Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to deceive programs as if I were a local user?
Message-ID:  <20090425121231.GC31588@club.kyutech.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: <20090425092222.GA75517@ei.bzerk.org>
References:  <20090423073229.GA87987@club.kyutech.ac.jp> <20090423091027.GA47290@ei.bzerk.org> <20090423181711.GH40655@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <20090425083416.GA31588@club.kyutech.ac.jp> <20090425092222.GA75517@ei.bzerk.org>

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On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:22:22AM +0200, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> 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).
> 

Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant.

# cd /compat/linux/etc
# mv nsswitch.conf nsswitch.conf.dummy

And I ran the sample program, the linux binary resuled success.
The linux emulator seems to take the /etc/nsswitch.conf.

However, it is true that /compat/linux/etc/nsswitch.conf had already
existed when I was going to edit.

-- 
Iwao, Koichiro <meta@club.kyutech.ac.jp>



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