[BusyBox] getty,login and shadow passwords

[Robert Griebl]

On Friday 05 March 2004 02:35, Gerard W. Patterson wrote:
>
>       1. Does the current busybox (pre8) completely replace tinylogin?
>
yes

>
>       2. (related to the first question)  I am using the buildroot
>          system (again, nice work) and decided to do some customisation.
> [...]
>          Upon regenerating the root_fs_i386 image I could no longer login
> to the system.  The prompt shows up but any password I enter just causes a
> pause and then the prompt appears again.  

I too ran into that (well known) problem today :)
You have to issue a make "busybox-clean" or "busybox-dirclean" if you change 
any busybox config options (at least it is needed if you enable/disable 
shadow password support).

cu
Robert

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