Possible UID/GID bug in chrooted shells?

[Tom Worley]

On Tuesday 11 June 2002 5:24 pm, you wrote:
> Tom:  You just need to tell rsync to use numeric IDS, or else make a /etc
> in the chroot root, so that names can be resolved (it's chrooted, so it
> can't see the real /etc... ever notice the /etc in anon ftp sessions?). By
> default, rsync uses the names, rather than the numbers, since it was
> developed as a mirroring tool, where you might be mirroring a system where
> the ids don't match.  If it's not told to use numeric ids, it will attempt
> to resolve names to local numeric ids, and use them, else it uses the euid
> and egid of the rsync process.
>           --numeric-ids           don't map uid/gid values by user/group

Tim, I had already tried that with no joy, e.g.:

rsync --delete-excluded --delete -essh -avzog --numeric-ids /home/admin/ 
test at localhost:/home/backup

Same results, all files are owned by root as rsync is SUID root in the chroot 
enviroment. There is an /etc/passwd in there, but only with root and the test 
user's entries.
Oh, and I'm using linux 2.4.18 kernel, chroot 2.0.11, rsync 2.5.6CVS (from 
debian sid packages)
Regards,
Tom Worley
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