[Buildroot] [PATCH] host-mkpasswd: fix crash on Fedora 28 build host

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Wed May 30 15:31:19 UTC 2018


Peter, All,

On 2018-05-29 09:37 +0200, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:
>  >> Would you like to prepare a patch introducing the python-based approach? It
>  >> should be two patches: the first one introducing the python script in mkusers,
>  >> the second one removing the mkpasswd package.
> 
>  > Sorry, I am not too convinced that writing our own tool is good...
> 
> Me neither. Another alternative is to build host-busybox and use the
> mkpasswd applet with the built in crypt routines (ENABLE_USE_BB_CRYPT).

Yeah, I like that idea more. Plus, we can get known-reproducible
behaviour for other applets, should we need to add that.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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