[Buildroot] [PATCHv2 proposal/next 2/3] build: replace host-mkpasswd with host-busybox
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Tue Jun 5 16:50:39 UTC 2018
Christopher, All,
On 2018-06-05 09:35 -0700, Christopher McCrory spake thusly:
> Sorry for top post, on mobile.
> What about using openssl?
> [1]https://www.openssl.org/docs/manmaster/man1/openssl-passwd.html
Since we do not require that openssl be installed on the build machine,
we'd have to build our own one. We do have a host-openssl package, but
it takes quite a bit of time to build: on my relativelty fast laptop,
it adds about 32s to the build time. This is a pretty big hit...
So, not an option IMHO...
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, 9:15 AM Yann E. MORIN < [2]yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
>
> Carlos, All,
>
> On 2018-06-05 08:22 -0300, Carlos Santos spake thusly:
> > > From: "Arnout Vandecappelle" < [3]arnout at mind.be>
> > > To: "Stefan Becker" < [4]chemobejk at gmail.com>, "buildroot" < [5]buildroot at buildroot.org>
> > > Cc: "Yann Morin" < [6]yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>, "Thomas Petazzoni" < [7]thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, June 4, 2018 7:21:10 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 proposal/next 2/3] build: replace host-mkpasswd with host-busybox
> >
> > > On 01-06-18 15:30, Stefan Becker wrote:
> > >> host-mkpasswd was a fork from whois to provide a host version of
> > >> mkpasswd for the build. This has caused a maintenance headache.
> > >>
> > >> Replace it with host-busybox which can provide "mkpasswd" functionality
> > >> from own source code. That causes less hassle for different build
> > >> platforms.
> > >
> > > Just to be clear: does everybody agree that it is a good idea to use
> > > weakly-random numbers as salt, rather than real random numbers like whois does?
> >
> > Wouldn't it be better to add a host version of the whois package that
> > installs mkpasswd, only?
>
> That's what I initially suggested, but whois' mkpasswd uses some
> optional glibc features, which have been disabled in some distros,
> like Fedora28, which can then no longer build our mkpasswd. And our
> own mkasswd is an extract from way back then, when we did not have
> the whois package in busybox.
>
> So, switching to host-whois is not an imporovement over the current
> situation.
>
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
>
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> Links:
> 1. https://www.openssl.org/docs/manmaster/man1/openssl-passwd.html
> 2. mailto:yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
> 3. mailto:arnout at mind.be
> 4. mailto:chemobejk at gmail.com
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> 6. mailto:yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
> 7. mailto:thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
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> 10. http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot
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