[BusyBox] getty,login and shadow passwords

[Gerard W. Patterson]

Hello,

   I just wanted to say thanks! That did fix the probelm.

   - Gerry

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:36:02AM +0100, Robert Griebl wrote:
> On Friday 05 March 2004 02:35, Gerard W. Patterson wrote:
> >
> >       1. Does the current busybox (pre8) completely replace tinylogin?
> >
> yes
> 
> >
> >       2. (related to the first question)  I am using the buildroot
> >          system (again, nice work) and decided to do some customisation.
> > [...]
> >          Upon regenerating the root_fs_i386 image I could no longer login
> > to the system.  The prompt shows up but any password I enter just causes a
> > pause and then the prompt appears again.  
> 
> I too ran into that (well known) problem today :)
> You have to issue a make "busybox-clean" or "busybox-dirclean" if you change 
> any busybox config options (at least it is needed if you enable/disable 
> shadow password support).
> 
> cu
> Robert
> 
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