Re: Using fallback suid method

Corneliu Doban wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting the following message every time I login on the SugOS 5.3: Using fallback suid method.

This was discussed on the mailing list earlier -- search the archives on
yahoo and you should find the details.  It's a busybox thing, and IIRC
one simply has to create a file in /etc with the appropriate suid
information (an empty file is all it needs to behave like a normal Linux
system).

Of course, if you check the busybox website and archives for info on
this feature, you might find that feature to be useful (I thought it
might be, which is why it's enabled in the first place (although it
would have been nice if the default image had the config file created,
at least as an empty file)).

>
> Also the following 2 errors are logged:
> Jun  1 19:19:01 slugos sshd[1276]: error: Could not get shadow information for

SlugOS does not implement a shadow password.  Off the top of my head I
don't recall if one can disable SSHD's checking for the shadow passwd
file, but the message is quite benign so nobody has ever worried about
it.  I'd recommend ignoring it as well.

> Jun  1 19:19:01 slugos sshd[1280]: error: setlogin failed: Function not implemented

This is due to something in libc -- again I don't recall the details,
you will find it discussed in the archives for the mailing lists on
yahoo.  Or you can search the sshd mailing list archives; this message
is not unique to SlugOS.  It too can be safely ignored; it has to do
with unimplemented logging stuff, if memory serves.

>
> I don't remember seeing this after installing the SlugOS, so I might have caused it.
> Is any of you seeing it, or you might know the fix?

No fix required.  The only common thing is the creation of the empty
file in /etc that's described either on the wiki or in the mailing list
archives, but that doesn't change any behavior, it just gets rid of that
annoying message.


> Thanks,
> Corneliu

Mike (mwester)