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system cfg: update mkpasswd SHA option txt
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This patch drops the comment about checking the C libraries version as
they now all support it by default
    glibc 2.7+
    uclibc (bdd8362 package/uclibc: defconfig: enable sha-256...)
    musl 1.1.14+

Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Weber <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <[email protected]>
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rc-matthew-l-weber authored and jacmet committed Dec 15, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -81,20 +81,12 @@ config BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_PASSWD_MD5
config BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_PASSWD_SHA256
bool "sha-256"
help
Use SHA256 to encode passwords.

Very strong, but not ubiquitous, although available in glibc
for some time now. Choose only if you are sure your C library
understands SHA256 passwords.
Use SHA256 to encode passwords which is stronger than MD5.

config BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_PASSWD_SHA512
bool "sha-512"
help
Use SHA512 to encode passwords.

Extremely strong, but not ubiquitous, although available in
glibc for some time now. Choose only if you are sure your C
library understands SHA512 passwords.
Use SHA512 to encode passwords which is stronger than SHA256

endchoice # Passwd encoding

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