From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:12:33 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.oricom.de ([IPv6:::ffff:62.116.167.108]:8618 "EHLO oricom4.internetx.de") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:12:01 +0100 Received: from mycable.de (p5086B9E0.dip.t-dialin.net [80.134.185.224]) (authenticated bits=0) by oricom4.internetx.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9MECB6Z029032; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:12:12 +0200 Message-ID: <3F969106.5000807@mycable.de> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:15:34 +0200 From: Tiemo Krueger - mycable GmbH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Kesselring CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: root login References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 3486 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: tk@mycable.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Hmm, I remember that we had once a similar problem, but I can't remember the reason nor the solution. It appeared that we where not able to login as root, but user login was possible. Logged in as user I was allowed to 'su' to root. Perhaps this may be a hint, perhaps not, perhaps Bruno remembers the solution??? Tiemo David Kesselring wrote: >I apologize for the many recent questions but I have another trivia >question for all of you. :-) >I have installed the RH7.3 miniport to a harddrive connected to a MIPS >Malta board. The kernel the comes with the port (2.4.18) works fine. I >then took the cvs code (2.4.22) for mips and built it for malta. The first >few builds worked ok (which means I could logon as root). Then I changed >something in the build process so that now the kernels which I build won't >allow me to logon as root. I've changed /etc/passwd to eliminate the root >pw. Does anyone know how a kernel can affect the login like this? >Thanks, > >David Kesselring >Atmel MMC >dkesselr@mmc.atmel.com >919-462-6587 > > > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------- Tiemo Krueger Tel: +49 48 73 90 19 86 mycable GmbH Fax: +49 48 73 90 19 76 Boeker Stieg 43 D-24613 Aukrug eMail: tk@mycable.de Public Kryptographic Key is available on request -------------------------------------------------------