Re: [Jailkit-users] Config problems - New users don't work

[Olivier Sessink]

On 06/21/2010 02:41 PM, Derek Weichenthal wrote:
> address@hidden:/jail/etc# ls -la
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86 Jun 10 09:50 passwd
>
> address@hidden:/jail/etc# ls -la /etc/passwd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2370 Jun 10 09:50 /etc/passwd
>
> There is no libnsswitch.conf file present on the system. I am using NIS
> though for network authentication, could that possibly be the problem?
> My old accounts work while on NIS just fine, though it was with an older
> build.

if the system is configured for NIS is the jail also correctly 
configured so it will find the account information correctly? Remember 
that executables inside the jail cannot read config files from the real 
system!

Olivier