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

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On 20 May 2015 at 17:09, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 20 May 2015 at 16:02, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On a second thought: is even worse now than that, our code has to
>>> handle _three_ different scenarios:
>>>
>>> 1) Desktop.
>>> 2) Embedded without Yocto or embedded with old Yocto.
>>> 3) Embedded with new Yocto.
>>>
>>> I do not get excited about this.
>>
>>
>> Do as the documentation says in your distro and you have one scenario.
>
> That means compromising security. I am now looking for the ideal case
> in the future. What is wrong about dropping the privileges in busybox
> for undedicated processes without creating this separation?
>
> That would combine the convenience with security, wouldn't it?

We already do that. Since June 2002. version 0.60.4