[uClibc]tinylogin vs uclibc problems

[Mr Pink]

Thanks for the trick related to passwd and shadow files but it still doesn't
work

In fact it didn't asked me for a password but it still gives me a : 'Login
Incorrect'


What I find really strange is that if I do have a password set and I enter
the wrong one it says

Login[19]:password incorrect for root on stdin

and it says 'Login Incorrect'

It really doesn't seem to be a problem when parsing the passwd and shadow
file but when calling
the shell or whatever it does between those two steps.

I know the shell works cause it does when I 'chroot /newroot /bin/sh'
and so is the 'login' cause it works when I 'chroot /newroot bin/login'

Today I tried to disable all 'weird stuff' I had enabled like DOLFS and such
and I changed back my fs type to ext2 (It was minix fs) to make sure it
doesn't come from there but it didn't help at all.

Please can someone help me ...
I'm sure I'm doing something really stupid but I can't figure out where...

Thanks in advance to all of you


Mr Pink


-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Mahoney [mailto:pmahoney at 8d.com]
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 9:30 AM
To: Mr Pink
Cc: uclibc at uclibc.org
Subject: Re: [uClibc]tinylogin vs uclibc problems


I succesfully compiled tinylogin vs uclibc.
Check the initial values of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files.

I suggest:

/etc/passwd:
	root:x:0:0::/:/bin/sh
/etc/shadow:
	root::::::::

Now login as root and no password should be asked.
Hope this helps.


Pat Mahoney


On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 04:03:22PM -0500, Mr Pink wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to compile tinylogin vs. uclibc.  Everything compiles
out
> but when I reboot and try to login it says 'Login incorrect'.
>
> I've enabled shadow support in the uClibc Makefile and I've tried with and
> without the USE_SYSTEM_PWD_GROUP
> I've disabled shadow support in the uClibc Makefile and I've tried with
and
> without the USE_SYSTEM_PWD_GROUP
>
> None of these worked !!!
>
> Please can someone help me with these options I don't mind about using
> shadow password I just want to be able to login (I would prefer no
shadow).
>
> If it can help, when I 'chroot' in my embedded dir say /embed everything
> always works fine i.e.
> $ chroot /embed /bin/sh (the sh links to busybox)
> $ passwd root
> $ exit
> $ chroot /embed /bin/login (the login links to tinylogin)
>
> this way everything works so I can't figure out why it does not work when
I
> reboot (can it be the kernel I've recompiled using
CROSS=i386-uclibc-linux)
>
> Thanks a lot to everyone,
>
> Mr Pink
>
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