shadow passwords

[Vitus Jensen]

Am Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:06:35 +0200 schrieb Maurizio Rottin:

> i succesfully built a minimail image with sysvinit, tinylogin and
> busybox. the complete list of packege installed is: PACKAGE_INSTALL +=
> "busybox sysvinit sysvinit-inittab sysvinit-pidof tinylogin base-files
> base-passwd initscripts netbase zlib dropbear update-rc.d"
> 
> The system boots up, dropbear is started, i can ssh on the machine
> (which does not provide a login screen by default), but i don't know the
> password!
> 
> I searched a lot, and confronted my system with the openmoko one, i do
> not understand who (what package) is in charge of maintaining passwords,
> where they are stored, and if there is an encryption mothod or not.
> 
> do you have any idea, at least of what the default root passord is?

The default password for root is empty (no password set) and ssh won't 
let you login with that.  If you have no access to the rootfs you have to 
change it before making an image or have a look at the package base-
passwd (see above) which has a special patch for slugos so that there is 
a password which you might copy to do the same for your machine.

Bye,
   Vitus

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Vitus Jensen, Hannover, Germany, Earth, Milky Way, Universe (current)