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

[Daniel Dickinson]

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.

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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