password servers and whatnot.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_USE_BB_CRYPT
- bool "Use internal DES and MD5 crypt functions"
+ bool "Use internal crypt functions"
default n
help
Busybox has internal DES and MD5 crypt functions.
In static build, it makes code _smaller_ by about 1.2k,
and likely many kilobytes less of bss.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_USE_BB_CRYPT_SHA
+ bool "Enable SHA256/512 crypt functions"
+ default n
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_USE_BB_CRYPT
+ help
+ Enable this if you have passwords starting with "$5$" or "$6$"
+ in your /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow files. These passwords
+ are hashed using SHA256 and SHA512 algorithms. Support for them
+ was added to glibc in 2008.
+ With this option off, login will fail password check for any
+ user which has password encrypted with these algorithms.
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDGROUP
bool "addgroup"
default n
bool "cryptpw"
default n
help
- Applet for crypting a string.
+ Encrypts the given password with the crypt(3) libc function
+ using the given salt. Debian has this utility under mkpasswd
+ name. Busybox provides mkpasswd as an alias for cryptpw.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_CHPASSWD
- bool "chpasswd"
- default n
- help
- chpasswd reads a file of user name and password pairs from
- standard input and uses this information to update a group of
- existing users.
+ bool "chpasswd"
+ default n
+ help
+ Reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard input
+ and uses this information to update a group of existing users.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SU
bool "su"