[BusyBox] minicom

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Geir Thomassen wrote:

> Does root exist in /etc/passwd ?
> 
> Geir
> 
> Rudolf Ladyzhenskii wrote:
> > I am trying to run minicom on a "busyBox" system.
> > Every time I run it I get "You don't exist. Go away".
> > 
> > It seems that minicom does not get a proper user name.
> > Running 'whoami' gives:
> > 
> > whoami: cannot find username for UID 0
> > 
> > Any help on hos to fix it?
> > 
> > I can go and modify minicom not to do the check, but I prefer proper fix.

i went through *exactly* the above.  sorry to say, i'm not sure what i did
to fix it as, at the moment, i can run "whoami" and get "root" as an 
answer.  but i thought i'd chime in that i saw this error as well, and i
did all the standard checking -- "root" in /etc/passwd and so on.

more to the point, i'd still like to return to getting minicom running
on my BB-based system, so if someone gets there, i'd like to hear about
it.

rday