diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 50d2673d28..77fa3c68b6 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
+   
+   HADOOP-7811. TestUserGroupInformation#testGetServerSideGroups test fails in chroot.
+   (Jonathan Eagles via mahadev)
 
 Release 0.23.0 - 2011-11-01 
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/TestUserGroupInformation.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/TestUserGroupInformation.java
index 76d64d91fd..fec1d9194d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/TestUserGroupInformation.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/TestUserGroupInformation.java
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ public void testGetServerSideGroups() throws IOException,
                           (new InputStreamReader(pp.getInputStream()));
     String userName = br.readLine().trim();
     // get the groups
-    pp = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("id -Gn");
+    pp = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("id -Gn " + userName);
     br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pp.getInputStream()));
     String line = br.readLine();
     System.out.println(userName + ":" + line);