From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:31:07 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] target: add different methods to encode passwords In-Reply-To: <50E73970.8000404@zacarias.com.ar> (Gustavo Zacarias's message of "Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:20:00 -0300") References: <4286e89fcb929e0f8280fe2da2782c93227c0353.1356890711.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <50E73970.8000404@zacarias.com.ar> Message-ID: <87lic8n110.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Gustavo" == Gustavo Zacarias writes: Gustavo> On 12/30/2012 03:08 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: >> Passwords 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 'md5'. >> >> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Gustavo> Tested-by: Gustavo Zacarias Gustavo> However i'd like to see an option where the root password is untouched, Gustavo> probably as default. Gustavo> A slippy finger might get a bad surprise when upgrading to a Gustavo> new buildroot version and sees it's skeleton root password Gustavo> zapped away to nothing by surprise - an error that might take Gustavo> some time to get noticed and might even get shipped. Regards. Hmm, the root passwd stuff should only only be active if the default rootfs skeleton is used (so no passwd). I see that's not the case today, will fix. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard