Users unknown in jail, what to do?

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Fri Dec 30 13:54:13 PST 2005


Kövesdán Gábor wrote:
> mtree: line 6: unknown user root
> *** Error code 1
> 
> I copied passwd, master.passwd, group, nsswitch.conf files, too, but I 
> get the same. Could somebody tell me how can I solve this?

Try:

   # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd

in your jail.  That creates (amongst other things) the hashed .db files the
getpwent() etc. routines use.  Also look at

    # cap_mkdb login.conf

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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