2 # For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
3 # see scripts/kbuild/config-language.txt.
6 menu "Login/Password Management Utilities"
8 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS
9 bool "Support for shadow passwords"
12 Build support for shadow password in /etc/shadow. This file is only
13 readable by root and thus the encrypted passwords are no longer
16 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_USE_BB_PWD_GRP
17 bool "Use internal password and group functions rather than system functions"
20 If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's password
21 and group functions. And if you are using the GNU C library
22 (glibc), you will then need to install the /etc/nsswitch.conf
23 configuration file and the required /lib/libnss_* libraries in
24 order for the password and group functions to work. This generally
25 makes your embedded system quite a bit larger.
27 Enabling this option will cause busybox to directly access the
28 system's /etc/password, /etc/group files (and your system will be
29 smaller, and I will get fewer emails asking about how glibc NSS
30 works). When this option is enabled, you will not be able to use
31 PAM to access remote LDAP password servers and whatnot. And if you
32 want hostname resolution to work with glibc, you still need the
33 /lib/libnss_* libraries.
35 If you need to use glibc's nsswitch.conf mechanism
36 (e.g. if user/group database is NOT stored in /etc/passwd etc),
37 you must NOT use this option.
39 If you enable this option, it will add about 1.5k.
41 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_USE_BB_SHADOW
42 bool "Use internal shadow password functions"
44 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_USE_BB_PWD_GRP && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS
46 If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's shadow
47 password handling functions. And if you are using the GNU C library
48 (glibc), you will then need to install the /etc/nsswitch.conf
49 configuration file and the required /lib/libnss_* libraries in
50 order for the shadow password functions to work. This generally
51 makes your embedded system quite a bit larger.
53 Enabling this option will cause busybox to directly access the
54 system's /etc/shadow file when handling shadow passwords. This
55 makes your system smaller (and I will get fewer emails asking about
56 how glibc NSS works). When this option is enabled, you will not be
57 able to use PAM to access shadow passwords from remote LDAP
58 password servers and whatnot.
60 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_USE_BB_CRYPT
61 bool "Use internal crypt functions"
64 Busybox has internal DES and MD5 crypt functions.
65 They produce results which are identical to corresponding
66 standard C library functions.
68 If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's
69 crypt functions. Most C libraries use large (~70k)
70 static buffers there, and also combine them with more general
71 DES encryption/decryption.
73 For busybox, having large static buffers is undesirable,
74 especially on NOMMU machines. Busybox also doesn't need
75 DES encryption/decryption and can do with smaller code.
77 If you enable this option, it will add about 4.8k of code
78 if you are building dynamically linked executable.
79 In static build, it makes code _smaller_ by about 1.2k,
80 and likely many kilobytes less of bss.
82 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_USE_BB_CRYPT_SHA
83 bool "Enable SHA256/512 crypt functions"
85 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_USE_BB_CRYPT
87 Enable this if you have passwords starting with "$5$" or "$6$"
88 in your /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow files. These passwords
89 are hashed using SHA256 and SHA512 algorithms. Support for them
90 was added to glibc in 2008.
91 With this option off, login will fail password check for any
92 user which has password encrypted with these algorithms.
94 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDGROUP
98 Utility for creating a new group account.
100 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_ADDGROUP_LONG_OPTIONS
101 bool "Enable long options"
103 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDGROUP && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LONG_OPTS
105 Support long options for the addgroup applet.
107 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_ADDUSER_TO_GROUP
108 bool "Support for adding users to groups"
110 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDGROUP
112 If called with two non-option arguments,
113 addgroup will add an existing user to an
116 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DELGROUP
120 Utility for deleting a group account.
122 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_DEL_USER_FROM_GROUP
123 bool "Support for removing users from groups"
125 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DELGROUP
127 If called with two non-option arguments, deluser
128 or delgroup will remove an user from a specified group.
130 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_CHECK_NAMES
131 bool "Enable sanity check on user/group names in adduser and addgroup"
133 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDUSER || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDGROUP
135 Enable sanity check on user and group names in adduser and addgroup.
136 To avoid problems, the user or group name should consist only of
137 letters, digits, underscores, periods, at signs and dashes,
138 and not start with a dash (as defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001).
139 For compatibility with Samba machine accounts "$" is also supported
140 at the end of the user or group name.
142 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDUSER
146 Utility for creating a new user account.
148 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_ADDUSER_LONG_OPTIONS
149 bool "Enable long options"
151 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDUSER && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LONG_OPTS
153 Support long options for the adduser applet.
155 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FIRST_SYSTEM_ID
156 int "First valid system uid or gid for adduser and addgroup"
157 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDUSER || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDGROUP
161 First valid system uid or gid for adduser and addgroup
163 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LAST_SYSTEM_ID
164 int "Last valid system uid or gid for adduser and addgroup"
165 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDUSER || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDGROUP
169 Last valid system uid or gid for adduser and addgroup
171 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DELUSER
175 Utility for deleting a user account.
177 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_GETTY
180 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG
182 getty lets you log in on a tty, it is normally invoked by init.
184 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOGIN
187 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
188 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG
190 login is used when signing onto a system.
192 Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to
195 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PAM
196 bool "Support for PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)"
198 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOGIN
200 Use PAM in login(1) instead of direct access to password database.
202 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOGIN_SCRIPTS
203 bool "Support for login scripts"
204 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOGIN
207 Enable this if you want login to execute $LOGIN_PRE_SUID_SCRIPT
208 just prior to switching from root to logged-in user.
210 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_NOLOGIN
211 bool "Support for /etc/nologin"
213 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOGIN
215 The file /etc/nologin is used by (some versions of) login(1).
216 If it exists, non-root logins are prohibited.
218 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SECURETTY
219 bool "Support for /etc/securetty"
221 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOGIN
223 The file /etc/securetty is used by (some versions of) login(1).
224 The file contains the device names of tty lines (one per line,
225 without leading /dev/) on which root is allowed to login.
227 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PASSWD
230 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
231 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG
233 passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts. A normal user
234 may only change the password for his/her own account, the super user
235 may change the password for any account. The administrator of a group
236 may change the password for the group.
238 Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to
241 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_PASSWD_WEAK_CHECK
242 bool "Check new passwords for weakness"
244 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PASSWD
246 With this option passwd will refuse new passwords which are "weak".
248 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_CRYPTPW
252 Encrypts the given password with the crypt(3) libc function
253 using the given salt. Debian has this utility under mkpasswd
254 name. Busybox provides mkpasswd as an alias for cryptpw.
256 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_CHPASSWD
260 Reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard input
261 and uses this information to update a group of existing users.
263 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SU
266 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
267 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG
269 su is used to become another user during a login session.
270 Invoked without a username, su defaults to becoming the super user.
272 Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to
275 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SU_SYSLOG
276 bool "Enable su to write to syslog"
278 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SU
280 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SU_CHECKS_SHELLS
281 bool "Enable su to check user's shell to be listed in /etc/shells"
282 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SU
285 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SULOGIN
288 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG
290 sulogin is invoked when the system goes into single user
291 mode (this is done through an entry in inittab).
293 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_VLOCK
296 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
298 Build the "vlock" applet which allows you to lock (virtual) terminals.
300 Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to