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From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:03:21 -0300
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] busybox: use md5 as default password
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On 10/03/16 17:01, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

> So this is what is used when you change password through the busybox
> passwd applet or create a new user, right?
>
> Shouldn't we instead tweak this based on BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_PASSWD_*?

Yes.
This is the lowest-common which is guaranteed to work on all scenarios, 
once we decide/switch to sha256 as default we can update it here, but i 
wouldn't defer this until then.
Regards.