Re: [Plash] Using plash to overlay a filesystem

[Mark Seaborn]

Thomas Leonard <address@hidden> wrote:

> 2008/7/11 Mark Seaborn <address@hidden>:

> > PlashGlibc has a facility for faking the UID/GID returned from
> > getuid() and similar calls.  You need to use that.  See
> > set_fake_uids() in python/plash/pola_run_args.py, which pola-run uses.
> > It sets the environment variables PLASH_FAKE_{E,}{U,G}ID.
> 
> Using 1.19, I see these variables get set, but I still get:

It turns out this is a regression and I broke the UID/GID faking
facility when I changed the PlashGlibc build process (in
http://plash.beasts.org/wiki/Story6).  I've filed a bug
(http://plash.beasts.org/wiki/PlashIssues/FakeUidNotWorking) and I'll
fix it.

Cheers,
Mark