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

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 07:13:25 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  >> 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....  
> 
> If that is the only problem then we could still use it and pass our own
> salt, but that leaves the problem of coming up with a sufficiently
> random salt. I guess we could do something with reading /dev/urandom and
> base64 encoding it.
> 
> But yeah, just going for the python implementation may be the easiest.

Once again, what is the problem with the current solution we have ?

We have been happy with it for several years, and the only thing that
prompted this discussion is that it failed to build on Fedora 28, which
was fixed by a 3 lines change. Is it really worth it changing this
stuff ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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