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From: "Anish Patel" <anish.mailing.list@gmail.com>
To: <gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Busybox login requires root priviledges??
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:44:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002401c699e7$744d83d0$0201a8c0@LiveStrong> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 712F02BF-6D79-4296-A13C-402B7164ADB4@kivasystems.com

IIRC 1.1.0 had some problems with login, try 1.1.3 it seems to be working 
fine.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua ChaitinPollak" <jpollak@kivasystems.com>
To: <gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Busybox login requires root priviledges??


> Oops, sorry, 1.1.0.
>
> On Jun 26, 2006, at 10:17 PM, Anish Patel wrote:
>
>> what version of busybox?
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua ChaitinPollak" 
>> <jpollak@kivasystems.com>
>> To: <gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org>
>> 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
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>>> gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list
>>>
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>>
>
> -- 
> Joshua ChaitinPollak
> Software Engineer
> Kiva Systems
>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-27 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-26 23:37 [gentoo-embedded] Busybox login requires root priviledges?? Joshua ChaitinPollak
2006-06-27  2:17 ` Anish Patel
2006-06-27  2:52   ` Joshua ChaitinPollak
2006-06-27  3:53     ` Ned Ludd
2006-06-27 12:44     ` Anish Patel [this message]
2006-06-27 15:03       ` Joshua ChaitinPollak
2006-06-27 19:13         ` Joshua ChaitinPollak
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-27 13:47 Morgan, Austin D.
2006-06-27 19:39 Morgan, Austin D.
2006-06-27 20:29 ` Joshua ChaitinPollak
2006-06-27 20:40   ` Anish Patel
2006-06-27 20:51     ` Joshua ChaitinPollak
2006-06-27 21:35       ` Joshua ChaitinPollak

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