dropbear authentication

Giuseppe Cavallaro peppe.cavallaro at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 17:17:22 WST 2007


Hi Matt,
It works fine if I set root:R7gIX4dJJcCFw:... in passwd file.
So I'd like to have the same scenario but using root::... in passwd.
Is it possible?

Thanks a lot for your excellent support,
Giuseppe


>
> There's a hardcoded check in checkusername() that won't
> allow an empty password crypt since that's a common
> misconfiguration. If the user has an OK entry in /etc/passwd
> though, you can make Dropbear skip auth fairly easily, see
> the patch below.
>
> Matt
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