[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2 v4] system: remove DES password encoding

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:54:15 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> DES is long dead, it is insecure as hell, and virtually all known
> crypt(3) implementations now all support at least md5.
> 
> Besides, the character-space of DES-encoded passwords are a sub-set
> of the character-space for a clear-text password, so we can't easily
> differentiate between the two. Since we're going to change the root
> password prompt to support settign encoded passwords (as well as

I've fixed settign -> setting.

> clear-text passwords), we can't keep DES or we'd be unable to decide
> whether we'd need to encode the password or not.
> 
> Remove DES encoding altogether (and add a legacy entry). The default is
> still md5, and thus there's no backward-compatibility 'select' to add.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> Cc: Lorenzo Catucci <lorenzo@sancho.ccd.uniroma2.it>
> ---
>  Config.in.legacy | 7 +++++++
>  system/Config.in | 9 ---------
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

Thomas
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