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From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] busybox: use md5 as default password algorithm
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 01:10:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E20CE6.9090500@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pov2j8mt.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk>

On 03/10/16 23:00, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Gustavo" == Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> writes:
>
>   > 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.
>
> Ehh, yes - But if you have enabled E.G BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_PASSWD_SHA512
> then that is what the busybox passwd applet should use. Having it do md5
> instead of des is still wrong.

  Peter, you yourself said that we should limit the amount of KCONFIG_* fixups 
we do. And there is no other way to make it depend on the 
BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_PASSWD_* choice.

  Regards,
  Arnout


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-11  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-10 19:43 [Buildroot] [PATCH] busybox: use md5 as default password algorithm Gustavo Zacarias
2016-03-10 20:01 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-03-10 20:03   ` Gustavo Zacarias
2016-03-10 22:00     ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-03-11  0:10       ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2016-03-22 23:03 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-24 20:54   ` Peter Korsgaard

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