From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fv39w-0005YL-Li for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:18:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5R2HRD7014770; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:17:27 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.227]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5R2HQNE023973 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:17:27 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 36so375901wra for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:17:26 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:from:to:references:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole; b=nV+Q3Q04doIxRhYoTLY4IHysutQ5+Y9D+ALeJBDAvy/v586gbafJEXTn+Kg2NJD3BtkzFhQycIf6FJAGi9uDbZvIqSsAjZd8fEWPX/OD8oF6po6PoXyXwNIehcfRqcVoi5jCGU85WADjMOXxX1qKIvw83T2fIN8T+nUU5VmjUN4= Received: by 10.65.205.11 with SMTP id h11mr3239578qbq; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:17:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LiveStrong ( [24.147.213.182]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id e13sm1223610qbe.2006.06.26.19.17.25; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:17:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <000f01c6998f$c81e2670$7901a8c0@LiveStrong> From: "Anish Patel" To: References: Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Busybox login requires root priviledges?? Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:17:01 -0400 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Archives-Salt: dd211c1f-8500-46cc-bd26-a9f0af2df6dd X-Archives-Hash: 6d427c4805dcd53ec403ec49cb65f0bf what version of busybox? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua ChaitinPollak" To: Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 7:37 PM Subject: [gentoo-embedded] Busybox login requires root priviledges?? > Ok, I searched around on this one and I'm stumped. When I type 'root' > at the login: prompt, I get the error message: > > login: This applet requires root priviledges! > > This seems to be a common problem, except I've never seen it reported > for the login command. Also, I have busybox configured NOT to use > the /etc/busybox.conf [SUID] block, and I've tried with /bin/busybox > both SUID/GUID, and with it set to 777 permissions. > > Does anyone have any idea why I can't login? > > This used to work fine on my Linux 2.4 build, but now that I've > upgraded to 2.6, everything has gone pear-shaped. > > -Josh > > > -- > Joshua ChaitinPollak > Software Engineer > Kiva Systems > > > -- > gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list