Re: [PATCH 1/3] openssh: Allow empty passwords login.

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Monday 11 June 2012 11:27:48 Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 11:24 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > I don't think we want this to be image-specific. FWIW, we do already have
> > a
> > mechanism to handle this for the dropbear recipe - debug-tweaks in
> > IMAGE_FEATURES. I don't particularly like it however since IMAGE_FEATURES
> > should not be influencing non-image recipes. This has bothered me for a
> > while and I think we ought to change to some other mechanism (perhaps
> > make it a separate variable) and then make the OpenSSH recipe use that.
> 
> In the particular case of OpenSSH, it's just a configuration file
> setting, rather than a compile-time #ifdef, so doing it with
> IMAGE_FEATURES and a rootfs postprocess step sounds like a perfectly
> wholesome approach.
> 
> I agree that the current mechanism used by dropbear (applying patches
> based on IMAGE_FEATURES) is full of suck and should be changed, perhaps
> to something more akin to what openssh does.

Sounds good. I've created Yocto bug #2578 to look at fixing this in the manner 
you described.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre