[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/"?  ;))


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