Bug 1316168

Step 3 in reproducer is
LC_ALL=C sudo /usr/sbin/userdel --force -R /var/lib/mock/fedora-23-i386/root/ -r mockbuild
I forgot to copy here the -r option.

The problem is that userdel uses getpwnam() call in the chroot and that unfortunately fails because in the 32bit chroot there is no libnss_files.so to parse the /etc/passwd and shadow.

The --root feature is unfortunately only half-implemented and not really fully thought through and upstream development is very slow.

I would say even in 64bit chroot it is very undesirable to run any such libc calls and the parsing should be done only by shadow-utils.

Before the -R is used widely, the code would have to be reviewed and these getpw... calls workarounded.

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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle.
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shadow-utils-4.6-4.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-053fa23050

shadow-utils-4.6-4.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-783dfc5196

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shadow-utils-4.6-4.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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shadow-utils-4.6-4.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

shadow-utils-4.6-4.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.