[Buildroot] [PATCHv2 proposal/next 2/3] build: replace host-mkpasswd with host-busybox

[Yann E. MORIN]

Stefan, Arnout, All,

On 2018-06-08 14:40 +0300, Stefan Becker spake thusly:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 12:29 AM Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> >  So, not whois, not busybox, not openssl... What about python, which we anyway
> > require to be installed on the host? I remember that someone has posted a
> > one-liner that would do the job :-P

Well, I'd still prefer we had a script, and especially I did not like
that it would read the random bytes from stdin, when python provides a
proper random abstraction:

    import os
    os.urandom(64) # 64 random bytes

This is even portable, using various backends on various OSes... Then
your previous proposal becomes acceptable. Now. ;-)

> Because a python one-liner is not enough. F.ex. from support/scripts/mkuser:
> 
>    # Encode a password
>    encode_password() {
>        local passwd="${1}"
> 
>        mkpasswd -m "${PASSWD_METHOD}" "${passwd}"
>    }

Well, that one is an internal script of oours (I wrote it), so we can
very well change it to use another tool without problem.

> i.e. you need at least a python script with mkpasswd-compatible
> command line parameters.

Ideally, a mkpasswd-compatible tool would be nice, but as long as we use
it internally, we don't care much, in fact.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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