From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 23:13:44 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1 v2] scripts/mkusers: allow users with no password value set In-Reply-To: <1432403497-4132-1-git-send-email-james.knight@rockwellcollins.com> References: <1432403497-4132-1-git-send-email-james.knight@rockwellcollins.com> Message-ID: <20150609231344.69fed325@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear James Knight, On Sat, 23 May 2015 13:51:37 -0400, James Knight wrote: > The following allows a user definition to specify that a created user > entry should not have a password value set. Original implementation > allowed a user definition to provide a password value of "=" (no quotes) > to generate a crypt-encoded empty string value. In some cases, it may be > desired to have no value specified for a user's password. By using a > value "-" for a password, no value will be set in the shadow value. > > An example when this can be used is when logging into a terminal. > Logging into a session with an encoded empty password will prompt a user > to enter a password since it does not know the password is empty. If the > password field blank, a login session will not prompt for a password. > > Signed-off-by: James Knight > Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" > --- > Changes v1 -> v2: > - Correct error in commit message. > - More explicit example in commit message (suggested by Yann). > > docs/manual/makeusers-syntax.txt | 3 ++- > support/scripts/mkusers | 3 +++ > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Applied, thanks. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com