busybox Digest, Vol 193, Issue 42

[tito]

On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 05:29:52 -0400
Jeremy Harden <jerremiahharden at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does busybox 1.33.x and 1.34.0 need a shadow file?
> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh would imply I would.  My email entry was
> incorrect, the original passwd file was not malformed, it was actually
> root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh due I was not needing a shadow file and it
> worked out of the box without a shadow file at least in in 1.32.1.
Hi
cd busybox
make defconfig
grep PASSWD .config
CONFIG_FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS=y
CONFIG_CHPASSWD=y
CONFIG_FEATURE_DEFAULT_PASSWD_ALGO="des"
CONFIG_MKPASSWD=y
CONFIG_PASSWD=y
CONFIG_FEATURE_PASSWD_WEAK_CHECK=y

Ciao,
Tito

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> > Some reason when I log in as root it comes out with id 0 unknown.
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> > I haven't had this problem before (v1.32.1 works fine) where I login.  I
> > set the /etc/passwd file as root::0:0:root:/bin/sh (not using a shadow file
> > for my busybox build) and root is root:x:0 for groups.  I used make
> > defconfig to build from.  My kernel version is 5.13.12, but busybox 1.32.1
> > still works with it.
> >
> > Thanks!
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> > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 21:21:50 +0200
> > From: tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>
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> > On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:08:29 -0400
> > Jeremy Harden <jerremiahharden at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Some reason when I log in as root it comes out with id 0 unknown.
> > >
> > > I haven't had this problem before (v1.32.1 works fine) where I login.  I
> > > set the /etc/passwd file as root::0:0:root:/bin/sh (not using a shadow
> > file
> >
> > Hi,
> > isn't your passwd entry malformed as root's home dir entry is missing?
> >
> > root:  :0:0:root:?      :/bin/sh
> > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
> >
> > Just my 2 cents,
> > Ciao,
> > Tito
> >
> > > for my busybox build) and root is root:x:0 for groups.  I used make
> > > defconfig to build from.  My kernel version is 5.13.12, but busybox
> > 1.32.1
> > > still works with it.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Jeremy
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