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Diffstat (limited to 'system/Config.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | system/Config.in | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/system/Config.in b/system/Config.in index 1e4fff3ebc..c0e4f4a825 100644 --- a/system/Config.in +++ b/system/Config.in @@ -18,14 +18,14 @@ choice help Choose the password encoding scheme to use when Buildroot needs to encode a password (eg. the root password, below). - + Note: this is used at build-time, and *not* at runtime. config BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_PASSWD_DES bool "des" help Use standard 56-bit DES-based crypt(3) to encode passwords. - + Old, wildly available, but also the weakest, very susceptible to brute-force attacks. @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ config BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_PASSWD_MD5 bool "md5" help Use MD5 to encode passwords. - + The default. Wildly available, and pretty good. Although pretty strong, MD5 is now an old hash function, and suffers from some weaknesses, which makes it susceptible to @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ 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. @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ 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. @@ -178,17 +178,17 @@ config BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_ROOT_PASSWD default "" help Set the initial root password (in clear). It will be md5-encrypted. - + If set to empty (the default), then no root password will be set, and root will need no password to log in. - + WARNING! WARNING! Although pretty strong, MD5 is now an old hash function, and suffers from some weaknesses, which makes it susceptible to attacks. It is showing its age, so this root password should not be trusted to properly secure any product that can be shipped to the wide, hostile world. - + WARNING! WARNING! The password appears in clear in the .config file, and may appear in the build log! Avoid using a valuable password if either the |
