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[Tito]

On Tuesday 11 January 2011 15:02:08 David Henderson wrote:
> David Henderson wrote:
> > bump for help
> >
> >
> > David Henderson wrote:
> >> I'm back with yet another question - thanks to all of those who've 
> >> been patient and provided help thus far.  I'm working on the actual 
> >> login aspect of the distro at this point, but have been running into 
> >> problems using some of the applets provided in busybox.  I'm sure 
> >> they're user error, but here we go...
> >>
> >> I initially tried to copy the /etc/passwd, shadow, group, and gshadow 
> >> files from my working Kubuntu distro to busybox (after recompiling 
> >> without pam support).  I figured it wouldn't work, and it failed as I 
> >> suspected.  What I decided to do, at this point, was get to a prompt 
> >> and create those files using the applets from busybox so there'd be 
> >> no issues.  Below is what I tried to do and the errors that were given:
> >>
> >> # cd /etc
> >> # rm group gshadow passwd shadow
> >> # touch group gshadow passwd shadow
> >> # addgroup -g 0 root
> >> # addgroup users
> >> # cat group
> >> root:x:0:
> >> users:x:1000:
> >> # adduser -h /root -s /bin/bash -G root -u 0 root
> >> adduser: unknown group root
> >> # adduser -h /home/dave -s /bin/bash -G users dave
> >> adduser: unknown group users
> >>
> >> I read online that busybox may not work well with GID's and UID's 
> >> outside of the range specified in it's configuration (mine was set to 
> >> start at 100 and end at 999 by default).  So I was expecting issues 
> >> adding and working with the root account as it's UID and GID are 0.  
> >> However, busybox added the "users" group as 1000 (outside the range 
> >> specified in its config) and still gives errors when trying to use 
> >> it.  Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Dave
> 
> UPDATE: Talking with another mailing list member, it appears as though 
> the UID/GID numbering issue isn't an issue at all.  However, I'm still 
> at a loss as to why this isn't working.  As stated, I've tried using the 
> group gshadow, passwd, and shadow files from another distro without 
> success as well as creating them with busybox applets.  addgroup seems 
> to have no issues, but adduser always fails with messages listed above.  
> I've tried using the passwd and shadow files from other distros and just 
> change the password, but I end up with a "passwd: unknown uid 0" error.  
> I've verified that I have /lib/libcrypt (and /lib/gcrypt) even though 
> running ldd against the busybox binary doesn't specify that it needs 
> those libs.  It just will not work and I don't know why.  Is this 
> perhaps a misleading error message in busybox?  Am I missing a lib 
> somewhere?

Do you have 
CONFIG_USE_BB_PWD_GRP=y

enabled? else you need libnss* stuff and nss_switch.conf

Ciao,
Tito