* Paul Eggleton <[email protected]> [120611 12:24]: > On Monday 11 June 2012 11:45:49 Anders Darander wrote: > > * Lianhao Lu <[email protected]> [120611 11:03]: > > > Allow empty passwords login so that the default root user can login in > > > through openssh. > > > > NAK, this isn't a sane default for a OpenSSH-recipe...
> I agree, however more below... Good. > > What's your use-case? Is it for automatic testing/development? If so, > > can't you either set the password, or change the config using some other > > means, e.g. a post rootfs installation script? (And make sure that this > > is only run for the image in question, _not_ for all images). > I don't think we want this to be image-specific. FWIW, we do already have a > mechanism to handle this for the dropbear recipe - debug-tweaks in > IMAGE_FEATURES. I don't particularly like it however since IMAGE_FEATURES > should not be influencing non-image recipes. This has bothered me for a while > and I think we ought to change to some other mechanism (perhaps make it a > separate variable) and then make the OpenSSH recipe use that. That's right, the image shouldn't affect compile-time options. However, in this particular case, as it is a configuration file, it should be fine. The variable idea is also fine with me, as long as we keep sensible defaults, i.e. no empty password logins etc. Cheers, Anders -- Anders Darander ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
