Re: libnsl needed for scp to work in chroot

[James N. <jn...@gm...>]

This is to confirm that the issue is fixed in 2.3.4-4.  Thanks again for
your help!


On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:47 PM, James Nylen <jn...@gm...> wrote:

> I see.  Please ignore my comment on the bug, I'm retrying with 2.3.4-4 now.
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> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Russ Allbery <ea...@ey...> wrote:
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>> James Nylen <jn...@gm...> writes:
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>> > With the latest version of Linux Mint Debian Edition, and possibly other
>> > debians,
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>> Ah, that explains how you ended up with an odd version.
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>> > libnsl needs to be copied to the chroot or scp errors out with the
>> > "unknown user XXX" message.  The rssh debian package has a mkchroot.sh
>> > script which works except for this:
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>> > /usr/share/doc/rssh/examples/mkchroot.sh
>> > http://nylen.tv/mkchroot.sh
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>> > Here's the Debian bug report for this issue:
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>> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759270
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>> As mentioned in the bug, I believe this is fixed in 2.3.4-4.  There was a
>> typo that caused the mkchroot.sh script to not copy the libnss compat
>> modules (and therefore not libnsl, which is a dependency for them).
>>
>> --
>> Russ Allbery (ea...@ey...)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/
>> >
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