[NTLUG:Discuss] chroot shell in Fedora

[Bob Byron]

Has anyone succeeded in making a chroot'd shell in Fedora?

I have followed the instructions in the following document to try and
make a chroot'd environment.  It has potential, but I cannot get a
chroot command that will work.

Here is the howto I followed:  http://www.tjw.org/chroot-login-HOWTO/

But, when I "chroot /usr/jail", the environment does not see the
/usr/jail/etc/passwd or /usr/jail/etc/group files.  If I do a "ls -l" to
get a long directory listing, I get the follwing:

drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0            4096 Jan 18 16:12 bin
drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0            4096 Jan 15 00:38 dev
drwxr-xr-x    2 0        0            4096 Jan 18 16:09 etc
drwxr-xr-x    3 0        0            4096 Jan 15 00:34 lib
drwxrwxrwt    2 0        0            4096 Jan 18 05:23 tmp
drwxr-xr-x    3 0        0            4096 Jan 18 05:24 usr
                                ^Owner      ^Group

Notice the UID's and the GID's are displayed instead of the actual names.

So, why does Fedora not see the passwd and group files?