[Buildroot] [Bug 5366] can't login (root or default)

Thu Jul 26 19:09:16 UTC 2012

https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5366

--- Comment #12 from Shokurov Anton V. <anton at fit.com.ru> 2012-07-26 19:09:16 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> It would be nice to figure out why the /bin/login from util-linux doesn't work.
> My initial suspicion would be that it lacks the SUID-root bit set, but on my
> system /bin/login doesn't have this bit set. Or maybe the util-linux /bin/login
> requires some configuration file that we don't have or something.

> Have you tried changing root:x: to root:: in /etc/passwd?

Yes, i have. This does make it work (i can login), but since this is a 'hack'
(i don't know why this makes it work) i refrained from using this in our
system.

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