I am not really sure who is to blame, crossdev, Portage, eclasses or ebuilds. This happens at least to * plugdev group * sshd user & group * messagebus user & group (dbus package) * man user & group I have built a system via cross-compilation with crossdev. I am using Portage 2.3.62, Gentoo tree at commit 1f3f682b2af0 (Mar 4) with Chewi's cross-compilation patchset https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/9822 . # armv6j-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-emerge openssh >>> Emerging (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-7.9_p1-r3::gentoo for /usr/armv6j-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/ >>> Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-7.9_p1-r3::gentoo to /usr/armv6j-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/ >>> Jobs: 1 of 1 complete Load avg: 1.71, 0.77, 0.64 >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >>> Using system located in ROOT tree /usr/armv6j-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/ # grep sshd /usr/armv6j-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/etc/passwd (no results)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 541406 ***