From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] target: add different methods to encode the root password
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:04:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5058EFE9.5050707@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347574590-13716-2-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
On 09/14/12 00:16, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> The password can be encoded in different ways (from the weakest
> to the strongest): des, md5, sha-256, sha-512
>
> Add a choice entry to select the method, defaulting to 'des'.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN"<yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
I think this is going way too far for just setting the root password. I would just
make it an md5 crypt (which is supported by all uClibc versions) and be done
with it.
Regards,
Arnout
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-18 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-13 22:16 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] target: add option to set the root password Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-13 22:16 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] target: add different methods to encode " Yann E. MORIN
2012-09-18 22:04 ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2012-09-18 22:24 ` Yann E. MORIN
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2012-12-28 21:20 [Buildroot] [pull request v3] Pull request for branch yem-root-passwd Yann E. MORIN
2012-12-28 21:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] target: add different methods to encode the root password Yann E. MORIN
2012-12-29 0:07 [Buildroot] [pull request v4] Pull request for branch yem-root-passwd Yann E. MORIN
2012-12-29 0:07 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] target: add different methods to encode the root password Yann E. MORIN
2012-12-30 17:02 ` Peter Korsgaard
2012-12-30 17:15 ` Yann E. MORIN
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