hijack204

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I'm working on a rhel5.1 server with OpenSSH version 4.9-5.x installed which has support for jails natively. Now I have the jail working great except I cannot get the commands:
whoami - aka id -un
logname

to work properly inside the jail.. anyone else have this problem? Here is what I have setup in my sshd_conf

Match User jailuser
ChrootDirectory /chroot/jail/
AllowTcpForwarding no

Now i've used nixCraft's nice little script to help me move over library's (http://www.cyberciti.biz/files/lighttpd/l2chroot.txt) and everything else seems to be working fine. Here are a few examples of output I get

#whoami
whoami: cannot find name for user ID 503
#id
uid=503 gid=504 groups=504
#id -un
id: cannot find name for user ID 503
503
#logname
503

So its getting the uid.. but I guess it can't lookup the name...

Mr. C.

You are missing the passwd file in the chroot tree, or it is not readable by the process.

trickykid

Mr. C. is probably correct. I just ran an strace on the whoami command it indeed reads the /etc/passwd file. You'll need this file in order to match the UID with user logged in somewhere in the chroot jail you setup.

hijack204

Yeah I thought that originally but its appears.. adding passwd shadow or group has no effect =( Maybe a caveat of using openssh's native jail

unSpawn

Show us the strace from inside your jail env?