[Buildroot] [PATCH] host-mkpasswd: fix crash on Fedora 28 build host

[M ZV]

 Hello,


>
> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:04 PM Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> wrote:
>
>> ditch our own bundled version, and switch to making our whois package a
>> hot pacakge, and use that as the provider for mkpasswd.
>>
>> Stefan, would you want to do that? ;-)
>>
>
> I'll give it a go, but can only work on this in a few weeks when I get
> some free cycles...
>
> Regards, Stefan
>
>
We're using mkpasswd specifically for a single task (skeleton-init-common
root password generation). I'm already tackling building this on Alpine
(musl environment) and facing
multiple issues: had to use -lintl for linking (that libintl musl/glibc can
of worms) and of course, it only makes md5 hashes since all SHA
functionalities are disabled on non-glibc systems via its header.

Can we just use a couple of python code using crypt.crypt(...), since
python is already a requirement. One less package to maintain is a good
news (buildroots already brimming with a mind boggling number of packages).

By the way, my first post here, I hope I'm not coming off as a nagging
pedestrian just adding noise. I highly appreciate the effort you guys are
putting into this.
Thank you.

(My apologies for double posting - it seems, at first, I didn't reply to
all)
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