dropbear on uClibc-0.9.15

[Matt Johnston]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 06:29:05PM +0800, phr phr wrote:
> Hi all,
>  I would like to use dropbear on uClibc-0.9.15 is it possible ?
> As i know all version can only run above uClibc-0.9.17.

As far as I recall, when I tried Dropbear using versions of
uClibc before 0.9.17 getusershell() I had problems with it
returning bogus values. Other than that, I don't know of any
particular reasons why it wouldn't work.

It's possible that it might work OK in some situations, or
if you're using it for a well-controlled embedded type
environment, removing the whole check (from lines 257 to 274
in svr-auth.c) is probably safe. Note that removing those
lines will let users log in even if their shell has been set
to something invalid (common practice for locking accounts),
and code which runs when they actually log in may fail.

Matt