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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] skeleton: add default login port to /etc/securetty
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:15:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120714191530.539ca71c@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5001A4D3.1030802@mind.be>

Le Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:56:51 +0200,
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> a ?crit :

>   But perhaps it's even better to remove securetty completely?  If it just
> enumerates all possible ttys (even non-existent ones), it doesn't really add
> security...  (Note: I haven't verified if util-linux's login allows root login if
> /etc/securetty is missing.)

Or we just add the tty that is selected to have the getty on (i.e the
skeleton would no longer have a etc/securetty file, and it would only
be created with one entry, as done by the patch being discussed).

Thomas
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-14 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-13  3:19 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] skeleton: add default login port to /etc/securetty roylee17 at gmail.com
2012-07-14 16:56 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-07-14 17:15   ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2012-07-14 21:20     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-07-14 23:08       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-07-15  0:28         ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-07-30 15:13           ` Tzu-Jung Lee
2013-05-26 20:14 ` Spenser Gilliland
2013-05-26 20:30   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-05-26 20:40   ` Spenser Gilliland
2013-05-26 20:43     ` Spenser Gilliland
2013-05-26 21:00     ` Peter Korsgaard
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-05-21  9:56 Tzu-Jung Lee

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