Re: [Jailkit-users] jk_chrootsh[17661]: abort, failed to get user information in the jail for user ID 514: Permission denied, check /home/jailuser/etc/passwd

[Olivier Sessink]

p.s. please discuss over the list, your mail server is denying my emails 
(?!?)

Alexander N. Treyner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is content of my /home/mldonkey/etc
>
> ls -l
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1437 Jan 31  2006 bashrc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   30 Mar  2 15:55 group
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   65 Dec  9  2006 hosts
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   53 Mar 15  2006 issue
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2613 Mar  2 15:55 ld.so.cache
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   28 Sep 12  2006 ld.so.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 Jan 13  2000 motd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1696 Sep 23  2004 nsswitch.conf
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   77 Mar  2 15:57 passwd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  937 Jan 31  2006 profile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   55 Dec  9  2006 resolv.conf
>
> Content of /home/mldonkey/etc/group:
> root:x:0:root
> mldonkey:x:516:
>
> Content of /home/mldonkey/etc/passwd:
> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
> mldonkey:x:514:516::/home/mldonkey:/bin/bash
>
> Related content of original passwd:
> mldonkey:x:514:516::/home/mldonkey/./home/mldonkey:/usr/sbin/jk_chrootsh

everything looks good.., the only thing I can think of now is your 
nsswitch.conf in the jail, or missing /lib/libnss* plugins.. (or /lib64)

> Also what about password for user mldonkey? Should I define it or no? 
> Currently I have no password defined for user mldonkey.

how are you logging in right now, with ssh private keys? I suppose 
that's fine.

Olivier