From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:04:02 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Login troubles In-Reply-To: <4B93A1AE.8070406@iwtech.com.au> References: <4B93A1AE.8070406@iwtech.com.au> Message-ID: <20100307160402.09f0825a@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Paul, On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:53:02 +1100 Paul Jones wrote: > I've just built a basic buildroot for my mini2440 ARM board and it > successfully boots to the buildroot login: prompt. > My problem is that I can't seem to login - I haven't touched any of > the config files and looking at /etc/passwd|shadow the login should > be root with a blank password? Right, no password, just press enter. > I've tried to login both from the serial console (which I set in the > buildroot menu to /dev/ttySAC0) and the normal console with a usb > keyboard - no luck. > buildroot login: root > Password: > Login incorrect Are you sure that you haven't made any change to /etc/securetty ? It must contain at least /dev/ttySAC0 to allow login as root from this console. The default target skeleton has a /etc/securetty that contains /dev/ttySAC0, so it should be ok, unless you made any change to the skeleton, of course, or used a different skeleton. Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com