Busybox and user/group problem

[Tito]

On Wednesday 19 September 2007 18:08:53 Jack B wrote:
> 
> Fuckink hotmail webmail !!!
> 
> Is it better ???
> If not ... I'll use another account ... and sorry for the trouble !
> 
> For information, /etc/gshadow is set like u for bin
> 
> Repost of the message :
> 
> Hi all.
>    I'm building a LiveCD based on kernel 2.6.20, busybox 1.6.0 and other tools that I need.
>    My first step was to build a basic LiveCD : a bootable CD using Grub, the kernel 2.6 and busybox. 
>    
>    With busybox 2.6.0 all work great EXCEPT a problem using user/group. The following commands don't work correctly :
>     # touch toto
>     # chgrp bin toto
>     chgrp: unknown group name: bin
>     
>    But the grou bin exist in /etc/group :
>    # more /etc/group
>    root::0:root
>    bin::1:
>    rpm::2:
>    
>    I've look around my config fils in /etc (/etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow and /etc/nsswitch.conf) but all seem ok !
>    Content is above : 
>      # more /etc/group
>      root::0:root
>      bin::1:
>      rpm::2:
>    
>      # more /etc/shadow
>      root:?????:12439:0:99999:7:::
>    
>      # more /etc/passwd
>      root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>    
>    I've tried with the recent 1.7.1 busybox and it seem to work (the chgrp work correctly).
>    
>    BUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>    
>    I've the RPM tool in my binaries (I don't use the busybox rpm version coz I need all option of RPM) and here, for a package that need group bin, RPM say me that group bin doesn't exist !!!!!!!!!!!!!
>    Damned !
>    
>    # rpm -Uvh --nodeps expat-2.0.0-1.i386.rpm
>    warning: group bin doesn't exist  - using root 
>    
>    
>    Anybody have an idea where I can look ?

      busybox/coreutils/chgrp.c
      busybox/coreutils/chown.c
      busybox/libpwdgrp/uidgid_get.c

	Maybe this change fixed it for newer versions than yours:
	
	http://www.busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/busybox/coreutils/chown.c?rev=19557&view=log
	
	Revision 17145  - (view) (download) (as text) - [select for diffs]
	Modified Wed Jan 3 12:07:06 2007 PST (8 months, 2 weeks ago) by vda
	File length: 2952 byte(s)
	Diff to previous 17095 (colored)

	chown: fix handling of "user.group" notation

>    It seem that the glue between the system and user and group config file doesn't work ! 
>    
>    All ideas are welcome !!!!!!!!
> 

Ciao,
Tito