From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Constable Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:04:42 +1000 Subject: [Buildroot] FW: Buildroot RFS Login Question In-Reply-To: <87bop9zrvp.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> References: <4F321CF0.7000305@renta.net> <87bop9zrvp.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <4F32D55A.6010004@renta.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Wed 08 Feb 2012 17:49:46 EST, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > 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). Right, I was struggling to find the right inittab entry for a "normal" console login and had used /bin/login which seems to demand a non-root login. Once I tried this it let me in as root without a password... tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 It would have saved me a lot of time if this entry was in /etc/inittab, even if it was commented out.