When I log in, why does my system consult passwd and not shadow?
Possibly because you're logging in using the busybox login utility (rather
than dropbear), and the one you're using does not seem to have been compiled
with CONFIG_FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS and CONFIG_USE_BB_SHADOW enabled?
This is a guess...
I checked the config file I used and you are right.
I don't recall if I used the defaults. I made a lot of uneducated guesses
while configuring.
I told people on our list to delete shadow if they were having problems
with dropbear.
Being aware of /etc/shadow vs /etc/passwd is an important thing. Blindly
deleting /etc/shadow may mean you can't even log in as root anymore.
I renamed it when testing so I could put ti back. I can access this linux
from another one to fix mistakes.
If busybox doesn't have shadow support but your system has an /etc/shadow,
programs that _are_ shadow aware will get confused. This isn't a
dropbear-specific issue, per se.
This is why I removed shadow.
Our little 2-floppy linux that let you log in as root without a password
came with both passwd and shadow, but the later version where you just hit
Enter to login only has passwd.
Do you know if dropbear supports exporting X11 display?
I am trying to use X from the client computer but don't have any
experience with this. I export DISPLAY to the client IP number plus :0.
I have tried doing this from the server and from the client (after using
dbclient to connect to the server). I get a message from Xlib the second
way saying connection was refused to that IP number.
When I log in from the client computer to my user account at the server
and try to start X on the client so as to run X programs in an rxvt
(viewed on the client), X gets loaded on the server, I can run programs on
it from the server, and then there is an interesting crash on exit.
Xvesa and rxvt might be part of the problem.
There is probably a HOWTO for this, but our author suggested that dropbear
might not support exporting X (or rxvt might not work for it).
svgalib programs cannot be run this way. Console programs work fine.
Sindi
Rob
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