[BusyBox] help with bb login please.

[Steve Wahl]

Frank,

romfs is limited in what it can represent for the permissions bits of
a file.

Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt:

...
Since the file headers begin always at a 16 byte boundary, the lowest
4 bits would be always zero in the next filehdr pointer.  These four
bits are used for the mode information.  Bits 0..2 specify the type of
the file; while bit 4 shows if the file is executable or not.  The
permissions are assumed to be world readable, if this bit is not set,
and world executable if it is; except the character and block devices,
they are never accessible for other than owner.  The owner of every...

--> Steve


On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:34:23PM -0400, Frank R Callaghan wrote:
> Thanks Manuel,
> It look like thats the case my
> romfs seems to have set all /dev to  400 ! but
> its not that way in my image directory setup ???
> I have no idea why this is happening !
> 
> Cheers,
>     Frank.
> 
> On Tuesday 22 July 2003 03:44 pm, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:29:48PM -0400, Frank R Callaghan wrote:
> > > login: bb_xasprintf: Permission denied  <<---===========
> >
> > If you are using uClibc, then you probably have a permission problem
> > on /dev/null.  It should be rw for everyone.
> >
> > Manuel
> 
> 
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