From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Se2ig-0004Gf-Mr for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:23:38 +0200 Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 11 Jun 2012 04:13:03 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,352,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="151282505" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.120.119]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 11 Jun 2012 04:13:02 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:13:01 +0100 Message-ID: <21967910.Cvp1B8MzgQ@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.8.3 (Linux/3.2.0-24-generic-pae; KDE/4.8.3; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1339410469.31110.73.camel@phil-desktop> References: <2537506.sJK0eATnrm@helios> <1339410469.31110.73.camel@phil-desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Phil Blundell Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] openssh: Allow empty passwords login. X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:23:38 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre