From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L3Y8Q-00076J-D5 for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:41:30 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L3Y5r-00059P-S7 for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:38:51 +0000 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:38:51 +0000 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:38:51 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:38:44 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4926D1D1.6030204@dresearch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081116 Shredder/3.0b1pre In-Reply-To: <4926D1D1.6030204@dresearch.de> Sender: news Subject: Re: Revert "busybox: Disable busybox shadow support for Angstrom" X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:41:30 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 21-11-08 16:20, Steffen Sledz wrote: > Koen Kooi wrote: >> Graeme and I reverted "busybox: Disable busybox shadow support for >> Angstrom", the commit message explains it: >> >> "Revert "busybox: Disable busybox shadow support for Angstrom" > > Mea culpa! Mea maxima culpa! > > My fault. I will write down the new committers instructions 100 times as penalty. OK? > > But back to the problem. It was reportet as bug 4808 (see http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4808) on November the 6th. Busybox 1.11.3 for Angstrom is build with shadow support, but Angstrom does not install /etc/shadow. This results in problems when calling the passwd command. Earlier busybox versions do not enable shadow support for Angstrom. > > I see two possible solutions: > > 1. the patch i committed illegaly > > 2. install /etc/shadow and fully support it (i believe ther is something more to do here) 2) is what is wanted for the angstrom 2008 release. regards, Koen