From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:49:46 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] FW: Buildroot RFS Login Question In-Reply-To: <4F321CF0.7000305@renta.net> (Mark Constable's message of "Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:57:52 +1000") References: <4F321CF0.7000305@renta.net> Message-ID: <87bop9zrvp.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 >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Constable writes: Mark> On 08/02/12 16:28, Poole, Donald R. wrote: >> Sam, I took a look at my /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow in my rootfs >> and each file is populated, but how do I know if they are valid? Mark> FWIW I find on a fresh install I have to login as "default" and then Mark> "su -" to root. With the default skeleton the root user has an empty password, so you should be able to login as root on the console (not ssh, as that typically doesn't allow empty passwords). -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard