[OE-core] [PATCH 1/3] openssh: Allow empty passwords login.

[Phil Blundell]

On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 11:24 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> I don't think we want this to be image-specific. FWIW, we do already have a 
> mechanism to handle this for the dropbear recipe - debug-tweaks in 
> IMAGE_FEATURES. I don't particularly like it however since IMAGE_FEATURES 
> should not be influencing non-image recipes. This has bothered me for a while 
> and I think we ought to change to some other mechanism (perhaps make it a 
> separate variable) and then make the OpenSSH recipe use that.

In the particular case of OpenSSH, it's just a configuration file
setting, rather than a compile-time #ifdef, so doing it with
IMAGE_FEATURES and a rootfs postprocess step sounds like a perfectly
wholesome approach.  

I agree that the current mechanism used by dropbear (applying patches
based on IMAGE_FEATURES) is full of suck and should be changed, perhaps
to something more akin to what openssh does.

p.