From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:04:21 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot RFS Login Question In-Reply-To: (Donald R. Poole's message of "Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:49:24 +0000") References: Message-ID: <8762fg4em2.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Donald" == Poole, Donald R writes: Hi, >> If you extract the tarball to your nfsroot as root, yes (or use one of >> the other filesystem outputs). You are not trying to use output/target >> directly, are you? Donald> No, I am not. After I create an ext3 filesystem on my SD card Donald> (sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1 in my case) and mount the newly Donald> create filesystem (sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /path/to/mount/point) Donald> is do a "sudo tar -xvf rootfs.tar -C /path/to/mount/point". Donald> So, when that is all said and done, my filesystem is indeed Donald> owned by root, but the setuid bit for /bin/busybox was not set. Setuid is handled by the device table. Do you have BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_TABLE="target/generic/device_table.txt" In your Buildroot .config? -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard