From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 13:05:07 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] avoiding the need to enter password In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20120804130507.13db9c42@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Sat, 4 Aug 2012 12:48:19 +0300, Kevin Wilson a ?crit : > When booting to Buildroot (which I had built from tree) I get the > message: Welcome to Buildroot > buildroot login: > > Is there a way to disable the need to enter password so that it will > boot automatically instead that I will have each time enter the > default password (which is "root")? The default password is not "root". The default password is empty. You can change /etc/inittab so that instead of starting /sbin/getty it starts /bin/sh. But obviously, doing so that anyone connecting to your system with a serial port has direct root access. But generally, this isn't needed: you just start whatever application you need through /etc/init.d/ scripts, and those applications get started regardless of whether you logged into the system or not. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com