[linux-help] Re: 'chroot' help.

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 21 May 2000, Wang Min wrote:

> Dear Sir,
> 
> Everything is fine until I execute 'sudo....', I cannot find
> sudo in my system as well as the RPMS files,so what is 'sudo'
> and what is his job? BTW,although I cannot get sudo to work, I
> test 'chroot /tmp /bin/sh', it already works, the prompt is
> '[I have no name!@server /]#'(my server's name is server), why
> I have no name? I do have got a name Wang :-). Thanks for your
> time.

Ahhh, sorry to confuse you more with 'sudo'. On my system, I can't
run 'chroot' as a user; that is, I can execute it, but it says
"Operation not permitted", so I used the sledgehammer of root.
What sudo basically does is run the given command with root
permissions; it's similar to "su root -c ...", only you don't have
to know the root password.  So, try just removing the 'sudo' part
of all the commands I gave.

As far as the prompt goes, that's probably bash setting up the
prompt, and trying to run "whoami" or something similar, as well
as 'uname -n'.  Either it already knew the server name, or
something, because that came through; "whoami" didn't
(correctly). Copy that executable into the chroot and the problem
should go away.

-jeff
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