[BusyBox] Authentication problem (newbie question)

Bruno Randolf bruno.randolf at 4g-systems.biz
Thu Sep 18 08:18:21 UTC 2003


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hi!

i'm not sure, but the reason might be that busybox is not owned by root and 
(or?) does not have the setuid bit set.
so try chmod a+s /bin/busybox

hope this helps,
bruno

On Thursday 18 September 2003 03:07, Fernando Pena López wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> I'm setting up my own distro based on busybox and uclibc,
> but I'm having some problems with It...
> Now, I resolved a lot of them, and my distro just boot up very
> fine... but I get the following error when I try to 'su' to another user or
> root:
>
> ~ $ su
> su: /etc/shadow: Permission denied
>
> The same '/etc/shadow: Permission denied' message apears when I try to
> conect to the system by ftp (linux-ftpd-017 compiled with latest uclibc).
> It seems to be all ok to me...
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Fernando Pena López.
>
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