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<title>Creating Essential Files and Symlinks</title>
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<primary sortas="e-/etc/passwd">/etc/passwd</primary>
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<primary sortas="e-/etc/group">/etc/group</primary>
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<primary sortas="e-/var/log/lastlog">/var/log/lastlog</primary>
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<para>Some programs use hard-wired paths to programs which do not exist yet. In
order to satisfy these programs, create a number of symbolic links which will be
replaced by real files throughout the course of this chapter after the software
has been installed:</para>
<screen><userinput>ln -sv /tools/bin/{bash,cat,echo,pwd,stty} /bin
ln -sv /tools/bin/perl /usr/bin
ln -sv /tools/lib/libgcc_s.so{,.1} /usr/lib
ln -sv /tools/lib/libstdc++.so{,.6} /usr/lib
ln -sv bash /bin/sh</userinput></screen>
<para>A proper Linux system maintains a list of the mounted file systems in
the file <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>. Normally, this file would be
created when we mount a new file system. Since we will not be mounting any
file systems inside our chroot environment, create an empty file for
utilities that expect the presence of <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>:</para>
<screen><userinput>touch /etc/mtab</userinput></screen>
<para>In order for user <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> to be
able to login and for the name <quote>root</quote> to be recognized, there
must be relevant entries in the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and
<filename>/etc/group</filename> files.</para>
<para>Create the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file by running the following
command:</para>
<screen><userinput>cat > /etc/passwd << "EOF"
<literal>root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
bin:x:1:1:bin:/dev/null:/bin/false
nobody:x:99:99:Unprivileged User:/dev/null:/bin/false</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>
<para>The actual password for <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
(the <quote>x</quote> used here is just a placeholder) will be set later.</para>
<para>Create the <filename>/etc/group</filename> file by running the following
command:</para>
<screen><userinput>cat > /etc/group << "EOF"
<literal>root:x:0:
bin:x:1:
sys:x:2:
kmem:x:3:
tty:x:4:
tape:x:5:
daemon:x:6:
floppy:x:7:
disk:x:8:
lp:x:9:
dialout:x:10:
audio:x:11:
video:x:12:
utmp:x:13:
usb:x:14:
cdrom:x:15:
mail:x:34:
nogroup:x:99:</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>
<para>The created groups are not part of any standard—they are groups
decided on in part by the requirements of the Udev configuration in this
chapter, and in part by common convention employed by a number of existing
Linux distributions. The Linux Standard Base (LSB, available at <ulink
url="http://www.linuxbase.org"/>) recommends only that, besides the group
<systemitem class="groupname">root</systemitem> with a Group ID (GID) of 0,
a group <systemitem class="groupname">bin</systemitem> with a GID of 1 be
present. All other group names and GIDs can be chosen freely by the system
administrator since well-written programs do not depend on GID numbers, but
rather use the group's name.</para>
<para>To remove the <quote>I have no name!</quote> prompt, start a new
shell. Since a full Glibc was installed in <xref
linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/> and the
<filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename>
files have been created, user name and group name resolution will now
work:</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>exec /tools/bin/bash --login +h</userinput></screen>
<para>Note the use of the <parameter>+h</parameter> directive. This tells
<command>bash</command> not to use its internal path hashing. Without this
directive, <command>bash</command> would remember the paths to binaries it has
executed. To ensure the use of the newly compiled binaries as soon as they are
installed, the <parameter>+h</parameter> directive will be used for the duration
of this chapter.</para>
<para>The <command>login</command>, <command>agetty</command>, and
<command>init</command> programs (and others) use a number of log
files to record information such as who was logged into the system and
when. However, these programs will not write to the log files if they
do not already exist. Initialize the log files and give them
proper permissions:</para>
<screen><userinput>touch /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp}
chgrp -v utmp /var/run/utmp /var/log/lastlog
chmod -v 664 /var/run/utmp /var/log/lastlog
chmod -v 660 /var/log/btmp</userinput></screen>
<para>The <filename>/var/run/utmp</filename> file records the users
that are currently logged in. The <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename>
file records all logins and logouts. The
<filename>/var/log/lastlog</filename> file records when
each user last logged in. The <filename>/var/log/btmp</filename> file
records the bad login attempts.</para>
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