[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] target: add different methods to encode passwords

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sat Jan 5 10:48:35 UTC 2013


Peter, Gustavo, All,

On Friday 04 January 2013 Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Gustavo" == Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar> writes:
>  Gustavo> On 12/30/2012 03:08 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
>  >> Passwords can be encoded in different ways (from the weakest
>  >> to the strongest): des, md5, sha-256, sha-512
>  >> 
>  >> Add a choice entry to select the method, defaulting to 'md5'.

>  Gustavo> However i'd like to see an option where the root password is untouched,
>  Gustavo> probably as default.
> 
>  Gustavo> A slippy finger might get a bad surprise when upgrading to a
>  Gustavo> new buildroot version and sees it's skeleton root password
>  Gustavo> zapped away to nothing by surprise - an error that might take
>  Gustavo> some time to get noticed and might even get shipped.  Regards.
> 
> Hmm, the root passwd stuff should only only be active if the default
> rootfs skeleton is used (so no passwd). I see that's not the case today,
> will fix.

OK, I'm on it.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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