[Buildroot] [Bug 6938] mkuser script generates wrong password for new user in target/etc/shadow

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https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=6938

Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #3 from Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> 2014-02-27 12:50:03 UTC ---
Thanks for the additional information.
The problem is not a bug, but a misunderstanding on your part, I think. The
password can be provided in three ways, as stated by the manual on this topic:

http://buildroot.uclibc.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#makeuser-syntax
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password is the crypt(3)-encoded password. If prefixed with !, then login is
disabled. If prefixed with =, then it is interpreted as clear-text, and will be
crypt-encoded (using MD5). If prefixed with !=, then the password will be
crypt-encoded (using MD5) and login will be disabled. If set to *, then login
is not allowed. 
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So if you expect to provide a clear-text password that is encoded by the
mkusers script, you should prefix it with '=', so:

NEWG_USERS = nguser -1 nguser -1 =nguser /home/nguser /bin/sh video,dialout Ng
user

As I believe the problem is solved if you add the '=', I will close this bug.
Please reopen if you still face problems.

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