From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:43:38 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot RFS Login Question In-Reply-To: (Donald Poole's message of "Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:53:21 -0600") References: Message-ID: <87mx9fh0qd.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" == Donald Poole writes: Hi, CC'ed the buildroot list. Please keep replies on the list as well. Donald> Hello Peter, Donald> First off, I would like to send my thanks and gratitude to Donald> you and your team for creating/maintaining the buildroot Donald> embedded filesystem generator. ?It is a wonderful tool Donald> that has save me (and I'm sure countless others) a lot of Donald> time putting together a robust working filesytem for Donald> embedded systems. Thanks! Donald> But, I do have a question regarding how Donald> to login into the system once the filesystem is copied over Donald> to the flash medium, nfs, etc. ?Is there a particular Donald> username/password to use for logging into the system once Donald> booted? ?I've searched the internet and read a lot of Donald> mailing lists and forums with no success. ?My only solution Donald> is to edit the /etc/inittab file and add the -n option for Donald> no login prompt. ?But I'd like use the login prompt for Donald> security and not having to hack the /etc/inittab file as a Donald> work-around. ?I'm sure it's something dirt simple that I'm Donald> missing, but I can't seem to put a finger on it. ?Any help Donald> would be greatly appreciated! ?Thanks in advance! Ehh, unless you are using a custom filesystem skeleton, you should have a root user without any password set. Does that not work for you? If it doesn't, then please provide some more details about your setup (buildroot config, how you boot your system, error messages?, ..) -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard