From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Weber Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 20:06:27 -0600 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/3] system cfg: update mkpasswd SHA option txt Message-ID: <1544061989-7450-1-git-send-email-matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net This patch drops the comment about checking the C libraries version as they now all support it by default glibc 2.7+ uclibc (bdd8362a88 package/uclibc: defconfig: enable sha-256...) musl 1.1.14+ Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" Signed-off-by: Matthew Weber --- Changes v1 -> v2 [Yann - Suggest this patch content is split out from the change of default method to SHA256 - then -> than in help text --- system/Config.in | 12 ++---------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/system/Config.in b/system/Config.in index 9e34f11..e33568f 100644 --- a/system/Config.in +++ b/system/Config.in @@ -81,20 +81,12 @@ config BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_PASSWD_MD5 config BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_PASSWD_SHA256 bool "sha-256" help - Use SHA256 to encode passwords. - - Very strong, but not ubiquitous, although available in glibc - for some time now. Choose only if you are sure your C library - understands SHA256 passwords. + Use SHA256 to encode passwords which is stronger than MD5. config BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_PASSWD_SHA512 bool "sha-512" help - Use SHA512 to encode passwords. - - Extremely strong, but not ubiquitous, although available in - glibc for some time now. Choose only if you are sure your C - library understands SHA512 passwords. + Use SHA512 to encode passwords which is stronger than SHA256 endchoice # Passwd encoding -- 1.9.1