[BusyBox] BusyBox / Netkit-Tiny / TinyLogin status...?
Vladimir N. Oleynik
dzo at simtreas.ru
Tue Feb 27 13:00:28 UTC 2001
Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Thu Feb 15, 2001 at 06:19:42PM -0500, Tom Cameron wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > Well, now that I have a working system, I just wanted to follow up
> > on some emails that I was clearing out of my box. What is the status of
> > merging netkit-tiny with busybox? Is it to a point where I should be using
>
> With ifconfig and route now in BusyBox, there is really no reason to use
> netkit-tiny. With the 0.50 release of BusyBox (which I hope will happen
> either
> Friday or Saturday), then netkit-tiny will be officially declared dead.
Appling telnetd applet to busybox from netkit-tyny?
> > any plans to merge tinylogin and busybox?
>
> There has been some discussion to that effect, but nothing conclusive (anyone
> have strong opinions either way?). There have been several changes to
> tinylogin recently, and I plan on making a 1.0 release of tinylogin, possibly
> as soon as tonight. I'm bumping up the version number to 1.0, simply because
> I consider it "done". I can't think of much further I really want
> to do with it (except use it).
Point: Real distributions without `login' very unsecure ;)
> For now, you can drop netkit-tiny from your arsenal. BusyBox, tinylogin, and
> uClibc are all alive and well, and of those, only tinylogin is even a
> candidate for the axe.
So can be we shall remove your strange addition "get_pw/"? ;))
--w
vodz
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