[Buildroot] [PATCHv3] busybox: improve support for telnetd

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 07/12/15 10:03, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Thomas, Alexey, All,
> 
> On 2015-07-12 02:20 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
>> From: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
>>
>> If target has connection to the network it might be pretty useful to
>> have telnet connection to it instead of serial console or even in
>> addition to serial console.
> [--SNIP--]
>> diff --git a/package/busybox/busybox.mk b/package/busybox/busybox.mk
>> index 92874cd..35f1e96 100644
>> --- a/package/busybox/busybox.mk
>> +++ b/package/busybox/busybox.mk
> [--SNIP--]
>> +define BUSYBOX_ADJUST_TELNET_SECURETTY
>> +	if grep -q CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNETD_STANDALONE=y $(@D)/.config; then \
>> +		for i in `seq 0 3` ; do \
>> +			grep -q "pts/$$i" $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/securetty || \
>> +				echo "pts/$$i" >> $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/securetty ; \
> 
> Why don't we simply add those four in our securetty, directly in our
> skeleton?

 That renders securetty even more useless than it already is.

 Why don't we just remove CONFIG_FEATURE_SECURETTY from our default busybox
config and get rid of all the securetty hacks?

 Regards,
 Arnout

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