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Diffstat (limited to 'package/busybox/config/loginutils/Config.in')
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1 files changed, 76 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/package/busybox/config/loginutils/Config.in b/package/busybox/config/loginutils/Config.in index 15019c1251..a0f1ca95ee 100644 --- a/package/busybox/config/loginutils/Config.in +++ b/package/busybox/config/loginutils/Config.in @@ -13,45 +13,71 @@ config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS readable by root and thus the encrypted passwords are no longer publicly readable. +config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_USE_BB_PWD_GRP + bool "Use internal password and group functions rather than system functions" + default n + help + If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's password + and group functions. And if you are using the GNU C library + (glibc), you will then need to install the /etc/nsswitch.conf + configuration file and the required /lib/libnss_* libraries in + order for the password and group functions to work. This generally + makes your embedded system quite a bit larger. + + Enabling this option will cause busybox to directly access the + system's /etc/password, /etc/group files (and your system will be + smaller, and I will get fewer emails asking about how glibc NSS + works). When this option is enabled, you will not be able to use + PAM to access remote LDAP password servers and whatnot. And if you + want hostname resolution to work with glibc, you still need the + /lib/libnss_* libraries. + + If you need to use glibc's nsswitch.conf mechanism + (e.g. if user/group database is NOT stored in /etc/passwd etc), + you must NOT use this option. + + If you enable this option, it will add about 1.5k. + config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_USE_BB_SHADOW - bool " Use busybox shadow password functions" + bool "Use internal shadow password functions" default n depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_USE_BB_PWD_GRP && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS help - If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's shadow - password handling functions. And if you are using the GNU C library - (glibc), you will then need to install the /etc/nsswitch.conf - configuration file and the required /lib/libnss_* libraries in - order for the shadow password functions to work. This generally - makes your embedded system quite a bit larger. - - Enabling this option will cause busybox to directly access the - system's /etc/shadow file when handling shadow passwords. This - makes your system smaller and I will get fewer emails asking about - how glibc NSS works). When this option is enabled, you will not be - able to use PAM to access shadow passwords from remote LDAP - password servers and whatnot. - -config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_USE_BB_PWD_GRP - bool "Use internal password and group functions rather than system functions" + If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's shadow + password handling functions. And if you are using the GNU C library + (glibc), you will then need to install the /etc/nsswitch.conf + configuration file and the required /lib/libnss_* libraries in + order for the shadow password functions to work. This generally + makes your embedded system quite a bit larger. + + Enabling this option will cause busybox to directly access the + system's /etc/shadow file when handling shadow passwords. This + makes your system smaller (and I will get fewer emails asking about + how glibc NSS works). When this option is enabled, you will not be + able to use PAM to access shadow passwords from remote LDAP + password servers and whatnot. + +config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_USE_BB_CRYPT + bool "Use internal DES and MD5 crypt functions" default n help - If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's password - and group functions. And if you are using the GNU C library - (glibc), you will then need to install the /etc/nsswitch.conf - configuration file and the required /lib/libnss_* libraries in - order for the password and group functions to work. This generally - makes your embedded system quite a bit larger. + Busybox has internal DES and MD5 crypt functions. + They produce results which are identical to corresponding + standard C library functions. - Enabling this option will cause busybox to directly access the - system's /etc/password, /etc/group files (and your system will be - smaller, and I will get fewer emails asking about how glibc NSS - works). When this option is enabled, you will not be able to use - PAM to access remote LDAP password servers and whatnot. And if you - want hostname resolution to work with glibc, you still need the - /lib/libnss_* libraries. + If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's + crypt functions. Most C libraries use large (~70k) + static buffers there, and also combine them with more general + DES encryption/decryption. - If you enable this option, it will add about 1.5k to busybox. + For busybox, having large static buffers is undesirable, + especially on NOMMU machines. Busybox also doesn't need + DES encryption/decryption and can do with smaller code. + + If you enable this option, it will add about 4.8k of code + if you are building dynamically linked executable. + In static build, it makes code _smaller_ by about 1.2k, + and likely many kilobytes less of bss. config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDGROUP bool "addgroup" @@ -82,12 +108,31 @@ config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_DEL_USER_FROM_GROUP If called with two non-option arguments, deluser or delgroup will remove an user from a specified group. +config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_CHECK_NAMES + bool "Enable sanity check on user/group names in adduser and addgroup" + default n + depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDUSER || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDGROUP + help + Enable sanity check on user and group names in adduser and addgroup. + To avoid problems, the user or group name should consist only of + letters, digits, underscores, periods, at signs and dashes, + and not start with a dash (as defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001). + For compatibility with Samba machine accounts "$" is also supported + at the end of the user or group name. + config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDUSER bool "adduser" default n help Utility for creating a new user account. +config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_ADDUSER_LONG_OPTIONS + bool "Enable long options" + default n + depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ADDUSER && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG + help + Support long options for the adduser applet. + config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DELUSER bool "deluser" default n @@ -236,4 +281,3 @@ config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_VLOCK work properly. endmenu - |