[OE-core] busybox: passwd: applet not found

[Laszlo Papp]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
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> On 20 May 2015 at 15:42, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> Now that just breaks all the code that our software is using. Why did
>> this binary incompatible change sneak in, and especially: why without
>> any note in the migration guide? Furthermore, is there a way to
>> reverse this? I really would like to avoid rewriting my code just
>> because some other people think it is a cool change. Or is this change
>> absolutely necessary?
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>
> The point was to not give "normal" applets such as cat suid rights.  Why
> can't your scripts just call passwd directly instead of proxying through
> busybox?

If busybox is available on desktop, I would like to call the busybox
applet through 'busybox appletname'. If I just call passwd, I will
call the desktop version. That is not what I want and this is not how
it has so far worked. I think this feature should have been at least
optional and if it has to break, it is definitely something to
document in the migration guide, isn't it?

Currently, I do not see any simple way without #ifdef jungle in the
code around to it. It is not nice.

>
> Ross