[PATCH 11/11] base-files: set root password if present inside board.json

[John Crispin]

The code checks if the first character is "$". In that case it is assumed
that the string contains a solted hash. Alternatively we assume that it is
a cleartext password.

Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>
---
 .../files/etc/uci-defaults/50-root-passwd         | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 package/base-files/files/etc/uci-defaults/50-root-passwd

diff --git a/package/base-files/files/etc/uci-defaults/50-root-passwd b/package/base-files/files/etc/uci-defaults/50-root-passwd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a7e5ace913
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/base-files/files/etc/uci-defaults/50-root-passwd
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+. /usr/share/libubox/jshn.sh
+
+json_init
+json_load "$(cat /etc/board.json)"
+
+json_select credentials
+json_get_vars root_password root_password
+	[ -z "$root_password" ] || {
+		if [ "${root_password:0:1}" == "$" ]; then
+			sed -i "s|^root:[^:]*|root:$root_password|g" /etc/shadow
+		else
+			(echo "$root_password"; sleep 1; echo "$root_password") | passwd root
+		fi
+	}
+json_select ..
-- 
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