how to run busybox to ask "user name" and "password" in console?

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:21:20PM +0800, stanliao wrote:
>Dear Sir,
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>We would like to run ftp and http servers on our arm-linux. Busybox is also
>used in our
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>system. The ftp server we use is pure-ftpd, and we use the so called virtual
>user account
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>provided by pure-ftpd. It's strange that if the home directory of some
>virtual user is created
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>in an FAT32 partition disk, this user can't put files; if the home directory
>of some virtual user
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>is created in an EXT2 partition disk, both put and get work. I just wonder
>whether or not this
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>is because that we didn't do any normal account managements. So, I'd like
>ask for help.
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>The content of "/etc/inittab" and "/etc/init.d/rcS" file are:
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>"/etc/inittab"
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>::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
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>ttyAM0::respawn:-/bin/sh
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>"/etc/init.d/rcS"
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>#!/bin/sh
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>PATH=/sbin:usr/bin:$PATH
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>Mount -t proc proc /proc
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>mount -oremount /dev/root /
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>1.      If I would like to ask user name/password to login through console,
>how should I revise these files?

You want a getty.
http://repo.or.cz/w/buildroot.git?a=blob_plain;f=target/generic/target_busybox_skeleton/etc/inittab;hb=HEAD

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>2.      Is there any tool for me to generate "/etc/passwd" and
>password-related files offline?

You can just edit them by hand or use something like:
http://repo.or.cz/w/buildroot.git?a=blob_plain;f=target/generic/target_busybox_skeleton/etc/passwd;hb=HEAD
http://repo.or.cz/w/buildroot.git?a=blob_plain;f=target/generic/target_busybox_skeleton/etc/shadow;hb=HEAD

etc. See repo.or.cz/w/buildroot.git/ or buildroot.uclibc.org for a tool
which creates a ready to run root filesystem that uses busybox and
uClibc.

HTH,