[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] base-files utils/busybox: Make requiring login in console default for easily accessed devices

[John Crispin]

On 23/12/2015 13:32, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> I'm inclined to make the opt-out an image generation time decision
> rather than configurable on the overlayfs for what I think are obvious
> reasons.

yep, that would be the best choice.


> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> On 23/12/15 07:24 AM, John Crispin wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 23/12/2015 13:05, Imre Kaloz wrote:
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>
>>> On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 07:58:59 +0100, Daniel Dickinson
>>> <openwrt at daniel.thecshore.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am reworking this (requiring console login) as couple of packages
>>>> for the packages feed, although it may require an image.mk or packages
>>>> Makefile hook in order to embed an appropriate inittab into the image
>>>> (since the inittab will need to be modified and we need to guarantee
>>>> the correct order of actions; and inittab comes from base-files which
>>>> is last thing done in the packages Makefile).
>>>
>>> I hope the other devs will chime in, but FWIW I would make this enabled
>>> unconditionally across all targets. As we already have a way to do a
>>> "factory reset" using the reset button, IMHO failsafe should also
>>> enforce login passwords everywhere, including the serial console.
>>>
>>
>> default on, once root passwd is set sounds good. an optional opt-out
>> feature would be nice to avoid people having to add dirty hacks to get
>> rid of the login prompt on tty shells. this could be hidden inside a
>> wrapper script called by inittab.
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