Re: [PATCH] live-initramfs: Assign user password from boot paremeter

[Steven Shiau <steven@nchc.org.tw>]

Steven Shiau wrote:
> Marco Amadori wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 June 2009, 16:19:14, Julien Cristau wrote:
> >
> >  
> > > On Wed, Jun  3, 2009 at 08:53:21 +0200, Marco Amadori wrote:
> > >    
> > > > Since what it's proposed expose the password in crypted way, it seems
> > > > a better approach of what we got since today.
> > > >       
> > > I think it's worse, because it gives a false sense of security.
> > >     
> >
> > I meant giving the hash and not the clear password on command line 
> > (hence on /proc/cmdline). The hash could be md5 is not really cheap 
> > security, although md5 got a bit deprecated.
> >   
> Actually if you prefer sha-256 instead of md5, you can generate the 
> password like:
> echo YOURPASSWD | mkpasswd -m sha-256 -s
> Or sha-512:
> echo YOURPASSWD | mkpasswd -m sha-256 -s
Oops... I meant for sha-512:
echo YOURPASSWD | mkpasswd -m sha-512 -s
> Steven.

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