[BusyBox] BB/tinylogin/whoami problems

[Steve Dover]

Brent Baude wrote:
> I'm working on a small project with busybox 0.60.5 and tinylogin as
> well.  Everything is working great except for after I login to the
> device, both whoami and id report the users in numerical format (i.e. 0
> for root).  I've examined the passwd, group, and shadow files and the
> syntax of each appears right.  Furthermore, login appears to work
> properly.  Can anyone suggest a resolution or nudge me in the right
> direction?
> 
You really need to upgrade busybox.
With busybox-1.00-pre8 everything works as expected
and you won't need tinylogin anymore.

You will need to enable SUID support in busybox.