[Buildroot] [PATCHv2 proposal/next 2/3] build: replace host-mkpasswd with host-busybox

[Carlos Santos <casantos@datacom.ind.br>]

> From: "Arnout Vandecappelle" <arnout@mind.be>
> To: "Stefan Becker" <chemobejk@gmail.com>, "buildroot" <buildroot@buildroot.org>
> Cc: "Yann Morin" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>, "Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 4, 2018 7:21:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 proposal/next 2/3] build: replace host-mkpasswd with host-busybox

> On 01-06-18 15:30, Stefan Becker wrote:
>> host-mkpasswd was a fork from whois to provide a host version of
>> mkpasswd for the build. This has caused a maintenance headache.
>> 
>> Replace it with host-busybox which can provide "mkpasswd" functionality
>> from own source code. That causes less hassle for different build
>> platforms.
> 
> Just to be clear: does everybody agree that it is a good idea to use
> weakly-random numbers as salt, rather than real random numbers like whois does?

Wouldn't it be better to add a host version of the whois package that
installs mkpasswd, only?

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Carlos Santos (Casantos) - DATACOM, P&D
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