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_ADDUSER_TO_GROUP
101 bool "Support for adding users to groups"
103 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDGROUP
105 If called with two non-option arguments,
106 addgroup will add an existing user to an
109 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DELGROUP
113 Utility for deleting a group account.
115 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_DEL_USER_FROM_GROUP
116 bool "Support for removing users from groups"
118 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DELGROUP
120 If called with two non-option arguments, deluser
121 or delgroup will remove an user from a specified group.
123 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_CHECK_NAMES
124 bool "Enable sanity check on user/group names in adduser and addgroup"
126 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDUSER || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDGROUP
128 Enable sanity check on user and group names in adduser and addgroup.
129 To avoid problems, the user or group name should consist only of
130 letters, digits, underscores, periods, at signs and dashes,
131 and not start with a dash (as defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001).
132 For compatibility with Samba machine accounts "$" is also supported
133 at the end of the user or group name.
135 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDUSER
139 Utility for creating a new user account.
141 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_ADDUSER_LONG_OPTIONS
142 bool "Enable long options"
144 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDUSER && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG
146 Support long options for the adduser applet.
148 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DELUSER
152 Utility for deleting a user account.
154 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_GETTY
157 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG
159 getty lets you log in on a tty, it is normally invoked by init.
161 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_UTMP
162 bool "Support utmp file"
163 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_GETTY || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOGIN || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SU || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_WHO
166 The file /var/run/utmp is used to track who is currently logged in.
168 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_WTMP
169 bool "Support wtmp file"
170 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_GETTY || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOGIN || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SU || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LAST
172 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_UTMP
174 The file /var/run/wtmp is used to track when user's have logged into
175 and logged out of the system.
177 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOGIN
180 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
181 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG
183 login is used when signing onto a system.
185 Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to
188 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PAM
189 bool "Support for PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)"
191 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOGIN
193 Use PAM in login(1) instead of direct access to password database.
195 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOGIN_SCRIPTS
196 bool "Support for login scripts"
197 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOGIN
200 Enable this if you want login to execute $LOGIN_PRE_SUID_SCRIPT
201 just prior to switching from root to logged-in user.
203 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_NOLOGIN
204 bool "Support for /etc/nologin"
206 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOGIN
208 The file /etc/nologin is used by (some versions of) login(1).
209 If it exists, non-root logins are prohibited.
211 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SECURETTY
212 bool "Support for /etc/securetty"
214 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LOGIN
216 The file /etc/securetty is used by (some versions of) login(1).
217 The file contains the device names of tty lines (one per line,
218 without leading /dev/) on which root is allowed to login.
220 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PASSWD
223 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
224 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG
226 passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts. A normal user
227 may only change the password for his/her own account, the super user
228 may change the password for any account. The administrator of a group
229 may change the password for the group.
231 Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to
234 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_PASSWD_WEAK_CHECK
235 bool "Check new passwords for weakness"
237 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PASSWD
239 With this option passwd will refuse new passwords which are "weak".
241 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_CRYPTPW
245 Encrypts the given password with the crypt(3) libc function
246 using the given salt. Debian has this utility under mkpasswd
247 name. Busybox provides mkpasswd as an alias for cryptpw.
249 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_CHPASSWD
253 Reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard input
254 and uses this information to update a group of existing users.
256 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SU
259 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
260 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG
262 su is used to become another user during a login session.
263 Invoked without a username, su defaults to becoming the super user.
265 Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to
268 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SU_SYSLOG
269 bool "Enable su to write to syslog"
271 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SU
273 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SU_CHECKS_SHELLS
274 bool "Enable su to check user's shell to be listed in /etc/shells"
275 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SU
278 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SULOGIN
281 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG
283 sulogin is invoked when the system goes into single user
284 mode (this is done through an entry in inittab).
286 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_VLOCK
289 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID
291 Build the "vlock" applet which allows you to lock (virtual) terminals.
293 Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to