[Buildroot] [PATCH] system: allow/disallow root login, accept encoded passwords
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sat Jul 4 18:26:06 UTC 2015
Thomas, All,
On 2015-07-04 14:08 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 22:00:05 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > From: Lorenzo Catucci <lorenzo at sancho.ccd.uniroma2.it>
> >
> > Currently, there are only two possibilities regarding the root account:
> > - it is enabled with no password (the default)
> > - it is enabled, using a clear-text, user-provided password
> >
> > This is deemed insufficient in many cases, especially when the .config
> > file has to be published (e.g. for the GPL compliance, or any other
> > reason.).
> >
> > Fix that in two ways:
[--SNIP--]
> Applied, thanks. This is typically the kind of patch for which if we
> had a test infrastructure in place, I would request to have some
> additional tests in the test infra.
Yes, sure.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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