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[David Henderson]

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David Henderson wrote:
> I'm back with yet another question - thanks to all of those who've 
> been patient and provided help thus far.  I'm working on the actual 
> login aspect of the distro at this point, but have been running into 
> problems using some of the applets provided in busybox.  I'm sure 
> they're user error, but here we go...
>
> I initially tried to copy the /etc/passwd, shadow, group, and gshadow 
> files from my working Kubuntu distro to busybox (after recompiling 
> without pam support).  I figured it wouldn't work, and it failed as I 
> suspected.  What I decided to do, at this point, was get to a prompt 
> and create those files using the applets from busybox so there'd be no 
> issues.  Below is what I tried to do and the errors that were given:
>
> # cd /etc
> # rm group gshadow passwd shadow
> # touch group gshadow passwd shadow
> # addgroup -g 0 root
> # addgroup users
> # cat group
> root:x:0:
> users:x:1000:
> # adduser -h /root -s /bin/bash -G root -u 0 root
> adduser: unknown group root
> # adduser -h /home/dave -s /bin/bash -G users dave
> adduser: unknown group users
>
> I read online that busybox may not work well with GID's and UID's 
> outside of the range specified in it's configuration (mine was set to 
> start at 100 and end at 999 by default).  So I was expecting issues 
> adding and working with the root account as it's UID and GID are 0.  
> However, busybox added the "users" group as 1000 (outside the range 
> specified in its config) and still gives errors when trying to use 
> it.  Any ideas?
>
> Dave