From 58a9acf75a3df8451440152239cdee133b298188 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Dionne-Riel <samuel@dionne-riel.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 18:19:05 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] runInLinuxVM: Ensure tools requiring /etc/passwd work

This includes, but is not limited to:

 * whoami
 * nix >= 2.3.1

See

 * https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/71157
 * https://github.com/NixOS/nixops/issues/1216
 * https://github.com/nix-community/nixops-libvirtd/issues/5

(cherry picked from commit 687e2195d8076b0cef3e29c719fb5ab35975c160)
---
 pkgs/build-support/vm/default.nix | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/vm/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/vm/default.nix
index 371ab13c52819..fb76dfe20a31d 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/vm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/vm/default.nix
@@ -126,6 +126,10 @@ rec {
     mkdir -p /fs/etc
     ln -sf /proc/mounts /fs/etc/mtab
     echo "127.0.0.1 localhost" > /fs/etc/hosts
+    # Ensures tools requiring /etc/passwd will work (e.g. nix)
+    if [ ! -e /fs/etc/passwd ]; then
+      echo "root:x:0:0:System administrator:/root:/bin/sh" > /fs/etc/passwd
+    fi
 
     echo "starting stage 2 ($command)"
     exec switch_root /fs $command $out