mrg@eterna.com.au (matthew green) writes:

>so, our libc code only looks at /etc/spwd.db if we are running as root,
>which is annoying if running under a chroot environment where we only
>care about the uid <-> name mapping, and thus only provide a /etc/pwd.db
>in the chroot area.  the patch below fixes this problem for me.

If you are creating a customised password data base for the chrooted
area with "pwd_mkdb -d" (which is probably a good idea in most cases),
this is a non issue.

If you are just copying /etc/pwd.db to the chrooted area, you can create
a link to spwd.db which works as well.

Why do we need a third fix for this problem?
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