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From: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
To: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>,
	Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
Cc: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>,
	openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] base-passwd: set root's default password to 'root'
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:09:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d0a381df-850b-6a63-7f7e-47741618cf87@balister.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479973589.6873.15.camel@intel.com>

On 11/24/2016 02:46 AM, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-11-24 at 11:38 +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
>> Currently, debug-tweaks is in EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES by default for poky, and
>> there is no passwd, so that user can login easily without a passwd, I think
>> that current status is more unsafe ?
> 
> Both well-known password and no password are unsafe. User "root" with
> password "root" is not even "more" safe already now, because tools that
> brute-force logins try that. Choosing something else would be a bit
> safer for a short while until the tools add it to their dictionary.
> 
> Poky is also targeting a different audience than OE-core. Poky can
> assume to be used in a secure environment, OE-core can't (because it
> might be used for all kinds of devices).
> 

That is the first time I've heard Poky is targeting an audience assumed
to be running in a secure environment. Should we document what Poky this
somewhere? From where I sit, this seems to be an odd limitation.

Philip


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-24 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-23  7:49 [PATCH 0/2] fix can't login when debug-tweaks is not in IMAGE_FEATURES Robert Yang
2016-11-23  7:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] rootfs-postcommands.bbclass: fix zap_empty_root_password Robert Yang
2016-11-23  7:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] base-passwd: set root's default password to 'root' Robert Yang
2016-11-23 11:16   ` Patrick Ohly
2016-11-23 14:17     ` Burton, Ross
2016-11-24  2:01     ` Robert Yang
2016-11-24  3:18       ` Paul Eggleton
2016-11-24  3:38         ` Robert Yang
2016-11-24  7:46           ` Patrick Ohly
2016-11-24  8:27             ` Robert Yang
2016-11-24 14:09             ` Philip Balister [this message]
2016-11-24 14:54               ` Patrick Ohly
2016-11-24 18:59             ` Paul Eggleton
2016-11-29  1:57               ` Khem Raj
2016-11-29  2:45                 ` Robert Yang
2016-11-29  3:45                   ` Paul Eggleton
2016-11-29  5:36                     ` Robert Yang
2016-11-29  6:27                       ` Paul Eggleton
2016-11-24  7:51       ` Mike Looijmans
2016-11-30  3:15 ` [PATCH 0/2] fix can't login when debug-tweaks is not in IMAGE_FEATURES Robert Yang
2016-11-30  9:28   ` ChenQi
2016-11-30  9:32     ` ChenQi

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