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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2010-03-11 14:47:04 +0000
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2010-03-11 14:47:04 +0000
commit05e15049a5f42ca7222c7557d7257352fe711d2e (patch)
tree9d14e1c849e0cb7e1725f1859465c714049d1a3a /src
parentc752c9f41aa88ff2129cdc0863fe74f76328835c (diff)
Show the build user's group in /etc/group in chroots.
* src/libstore/build.cc (nix::DerivationGoal::startBuilder): Create /etc/group showing the build user's group.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/libstore/build.cc6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/build.cc b/src/libstore/build.cc
index 4d542e31d..412640670 100644
--- a/src/libstore/build.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/build.cc
@@ -1578,6 +1578,12 @@ void DerivationGoal::startBuilder()
% (buildUser.enabled() ? buildUser.getUID() : getuid())
% (buildUser.enabled() ? buildUser.getGID() : getgid())).str());
+ /* Declare the build user's group so that programs get a consistent
+ view of the system (e.g., "id -gn"). */
+ writeFile(chrootRootDir + "/etc/group",
+ (format("nixbld:!:%1%:\n")
+ % (buildUser.enabled() ? buildUser.getGID() : getgid())).str());
+
/* Bind-mount a user-configurable set of directories from the
host file system. The `/dev/pts' directory must be mounted
separately so that newly-created pseudo-terminals show