[oe] tinylogin vs. busybox

Sergey Lapin slapinid at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 12:25:02 UTC 2008


On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
<mickey at vanille-media.de> wrote:
>  > , but frankly, I trust
>  > busybox as far as I can throw a piano (and toybox as far as I can throw
>  > a 21" crt) and SUID root binaries make my skin crawl, so we must be very
>  > carefull and do thorough tests before making this change.
>  > The last thing we want is $bigcompany to blame OE for the exploitabilty
>  > of their devices.
>
>  Sure, better safe than sorry. Of course this would not be the default in
>  OE.dev without being tested for quite some time.
Well, is it great idea to replace tinylogin with busybox-suid (which
should contain
carefully selected applets and properly tested)?




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