login attempt for nonexistent user

[Mark Brodis]

I am running dropbear (newest version, haven't checked what it is, but
downloaded it June 6, 05) on a small embedded system.  2.6.8 kernel,
busybox, etc, a very small stripped down system.

I currently start dropbear from the command line with:
./dropbear -r -F -E -m

When I try to connect to this box, I get the normal password prompt,
but upon entering the password it merely says it's wrong, try again,
etc.  I have two users on this embedded system, tried them both,
verified passwords, reset passwords.  My guess is it's not the password
but the actual user account dropbear isn't finding (since the error
doesn't say bad password, but nonexistent user).  The "login attempt
for nonexistent user from..." is what shows up on the embedded system
when I attempt a login from another box.

Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated.

The embedded system boots off a CF card and mounts the CF card in
read-only mode, so the OS can't write back to the card.  I have tried
this with it mounted rw also and that made no difference.

This embedded system did not have a /etc/services file before now,
apparently it was not needed (I had help getting this all together at
first).  Now I copied in the /etc/services file from my hard-drive
bootup version (development platform, same hardware but boots off a HD
rather than the CF card).  Not sure if that would make a difference (I
just tried removing the /etc/services file, no difference).

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mark Brodis

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