login: This applet requires root privileges!

[Vassilios Zafiropoulos]

dear list,

I am experiencing great problems booting a system from initramfs.
I am using a statically-built busybox binary as the initramfs system tool. The system itself, residing in a partition on the hard drive, is built from scratch using
buildroot, and has busybox, again.

After creating the initramfs archive, and linking it to the kernel, i would boot it inside qemu, and everything goes fine. I can mount all pseudo-filesystems, as required by mdev, and finally mount the 'real' root filesystem on a directory, local to the initramfs filesystem, namely /root. 

Problems arise when i try to finish the bool process, executing the /root/sbin/init program. 
Doing 
# exec switch_root /root /sbin/init
does manage to run the init program, which spawns the login prompt, BUT
i can never log in because:

Welcome to the Erik's uClibc development environment.                           

uclibc login: root                                                              
login: This applet requires root privileges! 

I am pretty desparate on this problem ,please help.

vasilis.
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