From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:04:25 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] target: add different methods to encode the root password In-Reply-To: <1347574590-13716-2-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> References: <1347574590-13716-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <1347574590-13716-2-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <5058EFE9.5050707@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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" 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 -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F