From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 00:21:10 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 proposal/next 2/3] build: replace host-mkpasswd with host-busybox In-Reply-To: <20180601133053.27552-3-chemobejk@gmail.com> References: <20180601125900.26400-1-chemobejk@gmail.com> <20180601133053.27552-1-chemobejk@gmail.com> <20180601133053.27552-3-chemobejk@gmail.com> Message-ID: <48945091-d169-18ba-31d0-a51c64e9a918@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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? Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF