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2006 Sep 24
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[Bug 1235] [PATCH] scp does unnecessary getpwuid(), breaking chroot
...cular, this creates an added dependency for running
scp inside a chroot jail, since username lookups must be enabled. This
means that the passwd file or the used nss libs should be present
inside the jail, which might not be wanted or possible (in our case).
The attached patch will simply skip the gepwuid() call when scp is
called in "server mode". It has been running in our production
environment for a while now. Though the patch has been created against
OpenSSH 3.8 (FreeBSD 5.4), I've checked the CVS version and nothing
seems to have changed that would break this patch.
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