Re: [PATCH] Lookup users and groups in root directory instead of on host

Hi Guillem,

Did you actually ever apply this patch? I assumed it would appear in a
new dpkg release given your previous email but looking at the dpkg git
branch it seems it was never applied? This is rather unfortunate as I
was hoping to have this issue fixed by now.

Cheers,

Daan

On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 at 12:16, Guillem Jover <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> On Tue, 2023-03-07 at 13:05:51 +0100, Daan De Meyer wrote:
> > If a root directory is configured by the user, lookup users and groups
> > in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group of that root directory instead of the
> > host's /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
> >
> > This is especially important when building Debian chroots on distros
> > that are not Debian based and where the host's /etc/passwd and /etc/group
> > is using passwd and group entries that differ wildly from those shipped
> > by Debian or its derivatives, causing dpkg stat-overrides to fail because
> > a group or user cannot be found in the host's passwd or group entries.
>
> Indeed, nice catch, and thanks for the patch (and for filing the bug
> report). While I don't quite like the hardcoding of the filenames, this
> is something that was already implicitly done by the system libc
> (including chroots and similar).
>
> I'll be queueing this as part of the greater refactoring for the
> dpkg sysusers support, and will probably add a way to override those
> pathnames externally to mitigate this hardcoding.
>
> Thanks,
> Guillem