[BusyBox] Busy Box and User Information

[S.Raimbault]

Brian,

I would suggest two things:

1. First check that the serial terminal allows root login. You should 
have a line with ttyS0 in file /etc/securetty.

2. Edit your /etc/shadow file and remove the root password:

root:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:YYYYY:Z:WWWWW:T:::
to
root::YYYYY:Z:WWWWW:T:::

This should allow to login without password. Once you'll be logged in, 
just use passwd command to set the root password.


I hope this helps,
SeB.


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>Hello busypeople.  I just started using busybox on an XScale platform and
>I'm trying to build the root file system from scratch.  When I boot with
>the following line in the inittab:
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>::askfirst:/bin/sh
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>I get a prompt but I can't su, and none of the user information seems to
>be active.  When I have this line in the inittab instead:
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>::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 38400 vt100
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>I get a login prompt but can't login, apparently because the user
>information is not set up right.  I copied over known working /etc/passwd
>and /etc/group files, but this still didn't work.  Can somebody help me?
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>Thanks,
>Brian
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>p.s.  I didn't really find any documentation on the /etc/busybox.conf file
>syntax.  Any pointers?
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