Re: [Jailkit-users] Need help deciphering error [SOLVED]

[Scott Ruckh]

This is what you said Olivier Sessink
> Scott Ruckh wrote:
>> I am trying to set up a SFTP jail.  I already had users set up working
>> in
>> a SHELL jail, but can not get this particular user to work.
>>
>> I am getting the following error:
>>
>> jk_lsh[#####]: uid ### or gid ### does not have a name
>
> this means that jk_lsh is inside the jail, and it cannot find the
> username or groupname corresponding to the user id or group id it is
> started with. Could be that some libnss* files are missing (on a 64bit
> system you might need to copy extra libnss* files from /lib64 or so).
>
> Or perhaps the user or group is simply not listed in the
> <jail>/etc/passwd or <jail>/etc/group files.
>
> the latest cvs snapshot has better explaining log messages for this
> situation.
>
> regards,
>       Olivier

Yes this was a 64-bit system, and yes, copying over the libnss* files
solved the problem.

I will eventually get around to upgrading Jailkit.

Thank you for the work and for the support!