[BusyBox] group permissions

[rich turner]

i am using busybox in an initrd along with udev. when i run udevstart to
create the devices in /dev it creates all the device nodes i would
expect, but the devices have the wrong group permissions.

i have all of the udev config files necessary (according to udev) in my
initrd to create the devices with the correct permissions. i also have
the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files in the initrd. i can tell it is
using the rules file because it is creating the devices with the correct
mode permissions. the only thing i am missing is the correct group
permissions.

i just recompiled busybox to use CONFIG_USE_BB_PWD_GRP=y, hoping that
this is the solution. according to the documentation it looks like the
perfect solution. however, i am getting the same results.

i must be missing something that is preventing busybox from parsing
the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. anyone have any ideas?