[BusyBox] help with bb login please.

[Frank R Callaghan]

I guess I'm buggered then ! since I need /dev/null word-writeable
for login !?

Is there any other solution I can try ?

TIA,
	Frank.

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 16:49, you wrote:
> 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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