system cfg: update mkpasswd SHA option txt
authorMatt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Thu, 6 Dec 2018 02:06:27 +0000 (20:06 -0600)
committerPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Sat, 15 Dec 2018 10:24:02 +0000 (11:24 +0100)
This patch drops the comment about checking the C libraries version as
they now all support it by default
    glibc 2.7+
    uclibc (bdd8362a88 package/uclibc: defconfig: enable sha-256...)
    musl 1.1.14+

Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
system/Config.in

index 9e34f11b6cc9c468b2f6c29829552d38cbe128ea..e33568f7ed6cbb7e4f44f18a3e0eed676f49bc2e 100644 (file)
@@ -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