Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 09:28:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: getpwuid - after chroot? Message-ID: <XFMail.980807092821.vev@michvhf.com> In-Reply-To: <35CAB3C7.4A6B776D@tdx.co.uk>
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On 07-Aug-98 Karl Pielorz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a workaround for using getpwuid() after you've chroot'd at all? -
> e.g.
> with the code below?
>
> I think the reason it _doesn't_ work is because once you've chroot'd the
> system
> can't get back to the '/etc/pwd.db' file etc.? - Is there any way round
> this?
>
> Apparently the following code does actually work on other systems...
> Someone
> mentioned Linux, but I don't have access to any Linux boxes to test it ;-)
I just tried compiling it on HPUX 9.0. It won't compile due to not
having setpassent. I compiled it on linux 2.0.24 and running as root
I get this:
second getpwuid(0) didn't work
Vince.
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