[Buildroot] [pull request v3] Pull request for branch yem-root-passwd
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Fri Dec 28 21:20:52 UTC 2012
Hello All!
This is iteration #3 for setting the root password from the configuration
menu:
- first patch adds the basic functionality:
- plain text password in menuconfig
- MD5-encrypted in /etc/shadow
- second patch adds additional encryption methods
There has been previous review of this series by Arnout, who suggested
dropping patch #2, and only use an MD5-encrypted password. Since MD5 is now
considered to be a weak hash, stronger alternatives may be usefull for the
security-conscious lurking among us. That's why I kept (resurrected) that
second patch.
Arnout also objected to having the root password in clear in the .config,
and recommended that the user enters the already-encrypted password. That
has, IMHO, a few drawbacks, in that it requires the user actually _reads_
the help text, switch to an alternate terminal, generates a password, and
copy-pastes it back in the initial terminal with the menuconfig. OTOH, if
the user forgets his/her password, he/she can recover it by looking at the
.config file. That's why I still advocates for entering a clear-text
password in the menuconfig.
Any more comments are welcome!
The following changes since commit 4848386446b937d4d0d9d3e9489932ca3fcb1003:
libffi: fix mips build failures (2012-12-28 16:55:09 +0100)
are available in the git repository at:
git://gitorious.org/buildroot/buildroot.git yem-root-passwd
Yann E. MORIN (2):
target: add option to set the root password
target: add different methods to encode the root password
support/dependencies/dependencies.sh | 9 +++++
system/Config.in | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
system/system.mk | 15 ++++++++
3 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN
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