From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 18:08:27 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 proposal/next 2/3] build: replace host-mkpasswd with host-busybox In-Reply-To: <48945091-d169-18ba-31d0-a51c64e9a918@mind.be> References: <20180601125900.26400-1-chemobejk@gmail.com> <20180601133053.27552-1-chemobejk@gmail.com> <20180601133053.27552-3-chemobejk@gmail.com> <48945091-d169-18ba-31d0-a51c64e9a918@mind.be> Message-ID: <20180605160827.GD2503@scaer> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'