On Thu Apr 06, 2000 at 03:45:37AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to make a Redhat 6.0 bootdisk and a minimal
> FileSystem. I have the kernel booting up on one disk. I copied
> the minimal FS that I have created onto another disk.
>
> After the message "Uncompressing RAMDISK from Sector 0", I
> get a login prompt. But no matter what username I enter, it never asks
> for a password and never logs in. It just clears the screen and
> the login prompt reappears.
>
> Does anyone know why this is happening ?
I maintain tinylogin (http://tinylogin.lineo.com/), which contains getty,
login, adduser, deluser, etc and is extremely small. The most common reason
why folks have problems with it not letting them login is that they are using
GNU libc, and they forget to install /etc/nsswitch.conf, and forget to install
the required /lib/libnss_compat, and/or they have other libnss_* stuff listed
in their /etc/nsswitch.conf file for passwd, group, and shadow that is not
installed. Hope this helps,
-Erik
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