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-rw-r--r--pkg/chrootuser/user_linux.go6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/chrootuser/user_linux.go b/pkg/chrootuser/user_linux.go
index 64ff7cef6..d48a1c7c2 100644
--- a/pkg/chrootuser/user_linux.go
+++ b/pkg/chrootuser/user_linux.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ package chrootuser
import (
"bufio"
+ "errors"
"flag"
"fmt"
"io"
@@ -78,6 +79,9 @@ func openChrootedFile(rootdir, filename string) (*exec.Cmd, io.ReadCloser, error
var (
lookupUser, lookupGroup sync.Mutex
+ // ErrNoSuchUser indicates that the user provided by the caller does not
+ // exist in /etc/passws
+ ErrNoSuchUser = errors.New("user does not exist in /etc/passwd")
)
type lookupPasswdEntry struct {
@@ -207,7 +211,7 @@ func lookupGroupForUIDInContainer(rootdir string, userid uint64) (username strin
return pwd.name, pwd.gid, nil
}
- return "", 0, user.UnknownUserError(fmt.Sprintf("error looking up user with UID %d", userid))
+ return "", 0, ErrNoSuchUser
}
func lookupAdditionalGroupsForUIDInContainer(rootdir string, userid uint64) (gid []uint32, err error) {