[Solved] ssh: exited: Unknown own user

[Guest Graham Wood]

I'm attempting to use ssh from the phone, and it's giving me the following message:

# ssh [email protected]

ssh: exited: Unknown own user

And, indeed, /etc/passwd does not exist. This is a "baked" rom from here.

One thing that is interesting, and more concerning, is what happens when I try to create it:

$ adb remount

remount succeeded

$ adb push passwd /system/etc/passwd

failed to copy 'passwd' to '/system/etc/passwd': Out of memory

(I get the same result using echo '' > /system/etc/passwd)

The output of dmesg on the phone gives me (nothing in logcat, the "nsm_nand_erase" to "Block <n> retired" is repeated lots of times with increasing numbers):

[ 703.335205] msm_nand_write_oob 143a0000 800 1c failed -5

[ 703.335906] **>> Block 2000 needs retiring

[ 703.336700] msm_nand_erase: erase failed, 0x143a0000

[ 703.337097] yaffs: Failed to mark bad and erase block 2000

[ 703.337768] **>> Block 2000 retired

[ 703.338134] yaffs tragedy: no more erased blocks

[ 703.338806] !!!!!!!!! Allocator out !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ 703.339172] **>> yaffs write required 49 attempts

Also the "space" on /system has changed from more than 50MB to 5.4M - and if I now run "sync" the system resets.

Any suggestions? I'm not too bad as a unix admin, but I've not spent enough time to get my head around adnroid properly yet.

Edited June 8, 2010 by Graham Wood

[Guest Graham Wood]

Solution was to follow the instructions from persko at http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-desi...certifications/, and just pusing the passwd file instead of a certificate file...

1: power off your Desire

2:Power on your Desire holding the volume down key

3:select recovery

4:when the read triangle shows, run the recovery script from the root package:

(recovery-linux.sh, recovery-mac.sh or recovery-windows.bat) depending on your OS.

5:mount the /system partition (# adb shell mount /system)

6: copy your certificat to the system (#adb push cacerts.bks /system/etc/security)

7: reboot your phone.

Now I just need to work out why making /system RW in "normal" mode doesn't work... But that's just for personal interest, and can wait :)

Edited June 8, 2010 by Graham Wood

[Guest Smilgs]

I think it is because the Desre is not fully rooted - i.e., the /system partition is not really writable in normal mode.

Solution was to follow the instructions from persko at http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-desi...certifications/, and just pusing the passwd file instead of a certificate file...

Now I just need to work out why making /system RW in "normal" mode doesn't work... But that's just for personal interest, and can wait :lol: