[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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