[oe] Revert "busybox: Disable busybox shadow support for Angstrom"
Koen Kooi
k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Fri Nov 21 16:38:41 UTC 2008
On 21-11-08 17:14, Graeme Gregory wrote:
>>> 2. install /etc/shadow and fully support it (i believe ther is something more to do here)
>> 2) is what is wanted for the angstrom 2008 release.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>
> Yes it seems the devices we are using Angstrom on now are becoming more
> like laptops every day. So we should be following security procedures
> for big machines much more.
>
> I mean the latest set of omap3 devices are quite defineately eeePC
> competitors.
It's scary that something as big and fat like a standard ubuntu desktop
is now a serious competitor in the omap3 space.
But regardless of that, shadow passwords and PAM give better security
that is transaparent for the user, so if for images >8MB we can support
things like shadow passwds, PAM, encrypted homedirs, etc.
regards,
KOen
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