[Buildroot] FW: Buildroot RFS Login Question

[Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Constable <markc@renta.net> writes:

 Mark> Right, I was struggling to find the right inittab entry for a
 Mark> "normal" console login and had used /bin/login which seems to
 Mark> demand a non-root login.  Once I tried this it let me in as root
 Mark> without a password...

 Mark> tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1

 Mark> It would have saved me a lot of time if this entry was in
 Mark> /etc/inittab, even if it was commented out.

We used to have hardcoded tty1/tty2 lines, but we removed those give
lots of error messages if the kernel isn't compiled with virtual
terminals support (which is fairly common on embedded) - See commit
7d9d09db673a.

It's hard to provide sensible defaults for everyone (E.G. names of
UART device nodes differ between boards), but atleast we have the '
We atleast provide the "Port to run a getty (login prompt) on" option
under System configuration to make it easy to configure.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard