RE: [gentoo-embedded] Busybox login requires root priviledges??

I konw that I have been fighting with this for a while now, glad to know I
am not the only one.  I have posted this same issue to the uclibc list (
according to the web page that is the appropriate place, but have not
recieved any repsonse other than I need to set my permissions correctly.

Austin Morgan


-----Original Message-----
From: gentoo-embedded+bounces-963-AUSTIN.D.MORGAN=saic.com@g.o on
behalf of Joshua ChaitinPollak
Sent: Tue 6/27/2006 2:13 PM
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Busybox login requires root priviledges??
 
Ok, I hacked the busybox source to print out the uid busybox things  
it is running as when I get the "this applet requires suid" error:

if (geteuid() != 0) {
   fprintf(stderr, "euid = %d, ruid = %d", geteuid(), getuid());
   // bb standard error here
}

and I get:

euid = -1, ruid = -1

What makes busybox think it is running as user -1? What does that  
mean when the uid functions return that?

Is this off-topic for Gentoo-Embedded, should I take this to the bb  
lists?

-Josh

On Jun 27, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Joshua ChaitinPollak wrote:

> Hum, trying to emerge 1.1.3 fails when trying to apply the busybox/
> files/1.1.1/bb.patch file. I commented out that line of the ebuild
> and now it builds. Unfortunately, it didn't solve my problem:
>
> Soekris login: root
> login: This applet requires root priviledges!
>
> Soekris login:
>
>
> Huh???
>
>
> On Jun 27, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Anish Patel wrote:
>
>> IIRC 1.1.0 had some problems with login, try 1.1.3 it seems to be
>> working fine.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua ChaitinPollak"
>> <jpollak@×××××××××××.com>
>> To: <gentoo-embedded@l.g.o>
>> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 10:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Busybox login requires root
>> priviledges??
>>
>>
>>> Oops, sorry, 1.1.0.
>>>
>>> On Jun 26, 2006, at 10:17 PM, Anish Patel wrote:
>>>
>>>> what version of busybox?
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua ChaitinPollak"
>>>> <jpollak@×××××××××××.com>
>>>> To: <gentoo-embedded@l.g.o>
>>>> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 7:37 PM
>>>> Subject: [gentoo-embedded] Busybox login requires root
>>>> priviledges??
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Ok, I searched around on this one and I'm stumped. When I type
>>>>> 'root' at the login: prompt, I get the error message:
>>>>> login: This applet requires root priviledges!
>>>>> This seems to be a common problem, except I've never seen it
>>>>> reported for the login command. Also, I have busybox
>>>>> configured  NOT to use  the /etc/busybox.conf [SUID] block, and
>>>>> I've tried  with /bin/busybox  both SUID/GUID, and with it set
>>>>> to 777  permissions.
>>>>> Does anyone have any idea why I can't login?
>>>>> This used to work fine on my Linux 2.4 build, but now that I've
>>>>> upgraded to 2.6, everything has gone pear-shaped.
>>>>> -Josh
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