[BusyBox] Howto get real logins

Tito farmatito at tiscali.it
Thu Jan 2 13:17:03 UTC 2003


On Thursday 02 January 2003 14:54, jmrobert5 at mchsi.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have BB 0.60.5 and tinylogin 1.2.  They are configured to use passwd
> directly(no shadow).  Problem is I never get 'prompted' for a password at
> login.  A pw is required with this, it has to be in the passwd file, we
> just don't get prompted to enter it.
>
> Can someone with real password logins post a brief outline about how to get
> it working correctly?  Maybe my inittab is wrong(using basic -sh -i), etc.

I think you have to use a getty to open the consoles which will then 
call login when it is needed.

Tito

> I have set up the nsswitch.conf and nss_compat as described in the readmes,
> but it never works.  What /dev/ entries are needed for login, if any?
>
> Thanks,
> JoeR
> jmrobert5 at mchsi.com
>
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