No ssh after uninstalling bash

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi,

after I uninstalled the package bash, I can not log in via ssh any more. The GUI still works, but I get no shell:

~$ ssh openwrt
root@openwrt: Permission denied (publickey).

As soon as I re-install bash, ssh works again. Tests showed that after uninstalling bash, /etc/passwd still points to /bin/bash as root's shell:

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

But even after manually changing this to /bin/sh/ no logging in is possible. So there must be some place where ssh is installed to use /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh.

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version/release?

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The default shell is /bin/ash (without trailing /)

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