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From: Yegor Yefremov <yegor_sub1@visionsystems.de>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 08:32:48 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] Console login root needing a password
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Am 04.05.2012 08:22, schrieb Thomas Petazzoni:
> Le Thu, 3 May 2012 23:04:05 -0400,
> Nigel Sollars <nsollars@gmail.com> 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.

With -/bin/sh was actually a tip from as Thomas as I needed to login to pty without a login. And as Thomas says you shouldn't have a problem with default image. Entering "root" as login and without a password is sufficient. After that you can execute passwd root.

Yegor