devices and permissions

Jason Schoon floydpink at gmail.com
Fri Jun 23 02:09:48 WST 2006


On 6/22/06, Larry Brigman <larry.brigman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/22/06, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 June 2006 7:44 pm, Larry Brigman wrote:
> > > I am trying to build a simple system with dropbear installed but
> > > I cannot seem to get it to allow connections.
> > >
> > > I believe it has something to do with the kernel config or devices.
> > >
> > > I have busybox running with telnetd working.
> > >
> > > Any help?
> >
> > I find "dropbear -F -E" to be generally helpful.  Tells you what it's
> doing,
> > and why, right there on stderr...
> >
> > Try getting it working via loopback on the same machine first.
> >
> libnss_files: symbol: _nss_files_parse_pwent GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined
> in libc.so.6
>
> It looks like mklibs got me or is that dropbear not linking to all the
> libs explicitly such
> that the elf file header doesn't have the right libs.
>
> I guess if I had used ulibc this would not be an issue.
>
> Is there a way to have dropbear use something like that of busybox for
> password
> access to remove this dependency or is that asking too much?


Nope, this is a glibc thing.  If you are using glibc, even if you statically
link your application, you need libnss present on the system.
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