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

[Yann E. MORIN]

Arnout, All,

On 2018-06-05 00:21 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> 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?

Not really, no. That is definitely no good. I was not aware of how bad
the busybox salt generator was.. Sigh....

(note: I did see your previous reply, but did not get enough time to
properly reply so far; sorry.)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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