From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 08:22:28 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Console login root needing a password In-Reply-To: References: <4FA2298E.5000807@visionsystems.de> <4FA27B9B.3080108@peavey-eu.com> <20120503154205.483441b5@skate> Message-ID: <20120504082228.4d637b6e@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Thu, 3 May 2012 23:04:05 -0400, Nigel Sollars a ?crit : > For this time around Yegor is the winner, it dropped me to a shell > directly where I was able to set a root password, this allowed me to > ssh into the unit. Well the thing is that you shouldn't have had to do that in the first place. Login should just work fine on the serial console. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com