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swarm32 · Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 12

I'm trying to set up oppensshd under puppy 3.00 and when I go to add a user it promptly replies

BarryK · Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2007, 05:39 Post subject:

did you create /home directory? it may be better to use /root/swarm32, as we do for spot.

swarm32 · Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 12

Double checked my directory creation, /home is most definitely there. Tried

Bruce B · Posted: Fri 12 Oct 2007, 04:50 Post subject:

I think you've discovered a bug - maybe in busybox or in its compilation.

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

try this:

Bruce B · Posted: Fri 12 Oct 2007, 20:23 Post subject:

It seems to my memory that adduser was part of the tinylogin tool set and with 3.00 it is part of busybox.

In any event, with 3.00 adduser --help shows the available arguments and swarm32 did it right and the commands fail.

So it's buggy and doesn't work like its supposed to, even if not using arguments does work, its supposed to accept the arguments and use them.

swarm32 · Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 12

joy. I decided to whip out my 2.17 disc and use that for this project since adduser and all works correctly. If I had any idea how to fix it I would, but alas I don't have a clue. Hopefully someone will be kind enough to fix this. Very Happy

Bruce B · Posted: Fri 12 Oct 2007, 23:23 Post subject:

Swarm32,

I went to busybox' website and don't find this reported as a bug. Maybe it is a compile time problem, I don't know.

After a little more research, I find the tinylogin tools are also made by the busybox team. And I never found problems with them.

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tinylogin cli help from puppy version 2.17.1

Tinylogin v1.4 (2005.08.02-19:41+0000) multi-call binary

Usage: tinylogin [function] [arguments]...
or: [function] [arguments]...

TinyLogin is a multi-call binary that combines several tiny Unix
utilities for handling logins, user authentication, changing passwords,
and otherwise maintaining users and groups on an embedded system. Most
people will create a link to TinyLogin for each function they wish to
use, and TinyLogin will act like whatever it was invoked as.

Currently defined functions:
addgroup, adduser, delgroup, deluser, getty, login, passwd, su,
sulogin, tinylogin, vlock

--------------------------------------------------------
Tinylogin net help address:

http://tinylogin.busybox.net/TinyLogin.html

---------------------------------------------------------

Suppose I should put together a little package for 3.00 for those who need certain things to work?

Maybe Barry will read this and have suggestion or want to fix things -- I'll give time for his input.

Bruce

BarryK · Posted: Sat 13 Oct 2007, 05:47 Post subject:

The tinylogin-1.4 PET package is on ibiblio. You could download and unpack it, and just use the 'tinylogin' executable. The applets are symlinks to it, and you should be able to run an applet like this:

# tinylogin adduser swarm32

If it works, well, I guess we will have to go back to using the tinylogin pkg.

swarm32 · Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 12

Tinylogin worked flawlessly.

prm49 · Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 6

I can confirm that adduser is misbehaving as reported above.

When you try to create user "fred", for example, it seems to think the name is already allocated and also seems confused between user and group names. It seems to write to etc/group and etc/gshadow files.

However, I can also confirm that tinylogin-1.4 does offer a flawless work-around. Before using it, you might like to purge any detritus from the ends of the group and gshadow files.

Peter

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Maine, USA

detritus:

prm49 · Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 6

Sorry - detritus has become colloquial UK English for junk or garbage.

Oxford English Dictionary includes "debris" as a synonym, and define debris as:

scattered fragments, wreckage, drifted accumulation.

I guess you get the idea!

Peter