From: Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>
To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org
Subject: Re: Revert "busybox: Disable busybox shadow support for Angstrom"
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:38:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gg6o6h$pqd$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1227284043.6981.3.camel@aquilonia>
On 21-11-08 17:14, Graeme Gregory wrote:
>>> 2. install /etc/shadow and fully support it (i believe ther is something more to do here)
>> 2) is what is wanted for the angstrom 2008 release.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>
> Yes it seems the devices we are using Angstrom on now are becoming more
> like laptops every day. So we should be following security procedures
> for big machines much more.
>
> I mean the latest set of omap3 devices are quite defineately eeePC
> competitors.
It's scary that something as big and fat like a standard ubuntu desktop
is now a serious competitor in the omap3 space.
But regardless of that, shadow passwords and PAM give better security
that is transaparent for the user, so if for images >8MB we can support
things like shadow passwds, PAM, encrypted homedirs, etc.
regards,
KOen
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-21 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-21 12:44 Revert "busybox: Disable busybox shadow support for Angstrom" Koen Kooi
2008-11-21 13:21 ` Martyn Welch
2008-11-21 15:20 ` Steffen Sledz
2008-11-21 15:38 ` Koen Kooi
2008-11-21 16:14 ` Graeme Gregory
2008-11-21 16:38 ` Koen Kooi [this message]
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