[BusyBox] help with bb login please.

[Frank R Callaghan]

Hi All,

I'm trying the new pre1 release of busybox login functions and can't
get the login to work, is the something I have missed ? everything
seems ok untill the 'bb_xasprintf: Permission denied' mesg !

TIA,
    Frank.

adduser: /home/frank: File exists
Changing password for frank
Enter the new p# adduser frank
Changing password for frank
Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 8 characters)
Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
Enter new password:
Re-enter new password:
Jul 21 15:23:16 passwd[138]: password for `frank' changed by user `root'
Password changed.
#

# login frank
Password:
login: bb_xasprintf: Permission denied  <<---===========

# cat /etc/group
root:x:0:
nogroup:x:1:
frank:x:501:

# cat /etc/passwd
root::0:0:Super User:/:/bin/sh
nobody:x:500:500:Linux User,,,:/etc/boa:/bin/sh
frank:x:501:501:Linux User,,,:/home/frank:/bin/sh

# cat /etc/shadow
nobody:tIX8NBuQ4l6uQ:11942:0:99999:7:::
frank:p9mq7X02g4IRg:12254:0:99999:7:::

# cat /etc/shadow-
nobody:tIX8NBuQ4l6uQ:11942:0:99999:7:::
frank:!:12254:0:99999:7:::

# cat gshadow

frank:!::

# ls -al /home/
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         1024 Jul 21 15:23 .
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           32 Jan  1  1970 ..
drwxr-tr-x    2 frank    frank        1024 Jul 21 15:23 frank