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Subject: Re: Running Apache on chroot() with Solaris 8
From: Edd Flammer (desdinovaNAC.NET)
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 13:00:48 CDT

Just taking a wild guess here...
the server start in chroot enviroment. It ties to change to the id nobody
for running the processes. Since it's chrooted it cant confirm the id though
/etc/passwd. and produces the error. perhaps a bogus passwd file with the
nobody entry is needed in <chrootpath>/etc/passwd.

----- Original Message -----
From: <vventuraSIA.PT>
To: <FOCUS-SUNSECURITYFOCUS.COM>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 1:01 PM
Subject: Running Apache on chroot() with Solaris 8

> As anyone tried to run apache on a chroot envirenment ?.
> I've been triyng but the apache always return's the
> following error: "httpd: bad user name nobody" i have an
> replication of the /etc dir in my chroot dir /chroot/etc.
> I following the Dale Coddington paper about installing and
> securing Apache. But the tests were made to Solaris 7.
>
> Vitor