2 # For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
3 # see scripts/kbuild/config-language.txt.
6 menu "Login/Password Management Utilities"
10 config FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS
11 bool "Support for shadow passwords"
14 Build support for shadow password in /etc/shadow. This file is only
15 readable by root and thus the encrypted passwords are no longer
19 bool "Use internal password and group functions rather than system functions"
22 If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's password
23 and group functions. And if you are using the GNU C library
24 (glibc), you will then need to install the /etc/nsswitch.conf
25 configuration file and the required /lib/libnss_* libraries in
26 order for the password and group functions to work. This generally
27 makes your embedded system quite a bit larger.
29 Enabling this option will cause busybox to directly access the
30 system's /etc/password, /etc/group files (and your system will be
31 smaller, and I will get fewer emails asking about how glibc NSS
32 works). When this option is enabled, you will not be able to use
33 PAM to access remote LDAP password servers and whatnot. And if you
34 want hostname resolution to work with glibc, you still need the
35 /lib/libnss_* libraries.
37 If you need to use glibc's nsswitch.conf mechanism
38 (e.g. if user/group database is NOT stored in /etc/passwd etc),
39 you must NOT use this option.
41 If you enable this option, it will add about 1.5k.
44 bool "Use internal shadow password functions"
46 depends on USE_BB_PWD_GRP && FEATURE_SHADOWPASSWDS
48 If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's shadow
49 password handling functions. And if you are using the GNU C library
50 (glibc), you will then need to install the /etc/nsswitch.conf
51 configuration file and the required /lib/libnss_* libraries in
52 order for the shadow password functions to work. This generally
53 makes your embedded system quite a bit larger.
55 Enabling this option will cause busybox to directly access the
56 system's /etc/shadow file when handling shadow passwords. This
57 makes your system smaller (and I will get fewer emails asking about
58 how glibc NSS works). When this option is enabled, you will not be
59 able to use PAM to access shadow passwords from remote LDAP
60 password servers and whatnot.
63 bool "Use internal crypt functions"
66 Busybox has internal DES and MD5 crypt functions.
67 They produce results which are identical to corresponding
68 standard C library functions.
70 If you leave this disabled, busybox will use the system's
71 crypt functions. Most C libraries use large (~70k)
72 static buffers there, and also combine them with more general
73 DES encryption/decryption.
75 For busybox, having large static buffers is undesirable,
76 especially on NOMMU machines. Busybox also doesn't need
77 DES encryption/decryption and can do with smaller code.
79 If you enable this option, it will add about 4.8k of code
80 if you are building dynamically linked executable.
81 In static build, it makes code _smaller_ by about 1.2k,
82 and likely many kilobytes less of bss.
84 config USE_BB_CRYPT_SHA
85 bool "Enable SHA256/512 crypt functions"
87 depends on USE_BB_CRYPT
89 Enable this if you have passwords starting with "$5$" or "$6$"
90 in your /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow files. These passwords
91 are hashed using SHA256 and SHA512 algorithms. Support for them
92 was added to glibc in 2008.
93 With this option off, login will fail password check for any
94 user which has password encrypted with these algorithms.
100 Utility for creating a new group account.
102 config FEATURE_ADDGROUP_LONG_OPTIONS
103 bool "Enable long options"
105 depends on ADDGROUP && LONG_OPTS
107 Support long options for the addgroup applet.
109 config FEATURE_ADDUSER_TO_GROUP
110 bool "Support for adding users to groups"
114 If called with two non-option arguments,
115 addgroup will add an existing user to an
122 Utility for deleting a group account.
124 config FEATURE_DEL_USER_FROM_GROUP
125 bool "Support for removing users from groups"
129 If called with two non-option arguments, deluser
130 or delgroup will remove an user from a specified group.
132 config FEATURE_CHECK_NAMES
133 bool "Enable sanity check on user/group names in adduser and addgroup"
135 depends on ADDUSER || ADDGROUP
137 Enable sanity check on user and group names in adduser and addgroup.
138 To avoid problems, the user or group name should consist only of
139 letters, digits, underscores, periods, at signs and dashes,
140 and not start with a dash (as defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001).
141 For compatibility with Samba machine accounts "$" is also supported
142 at the end of the user or group name.
148 Utility for creating a new user account.
150 config FEATURE_ADDUSER_LONG_OPTIONS
151 bool "Enable long options"
153 depends on ADDUSER && LONG_OPTS
155 Support long options for the adduser applet.
157 config FIRST_SYSTEM_ID
158 int "First valid system uid or gid for adduser and addgroup"
159 depends on ADDUSER || ADDGROUP
163 First valid system uid or gid for adduser and addgroup
165 config LAST_SYSTEM_ID
166 int "Last valid system uid or gid for adduser and addgroup"
167 depends on ADDUSER || ADDGROUP
171 Last valid system uid or gid for adduser and addgroup
177 Utility for deleting a user account.
182 depends on PLATFORM_LINUX
183 select FEATURE_SYSLOG
185 getty lets you log in on a tty, it is normally invoked by init.
190 depends on PLATFORM_LINUX
192 select FEATURE_SYSLOG
194 login is used when signing onto a system.
196 Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to
200 bool "Support for PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)"
204 Use PAM in login(1) instead of direct access to password database.
207 bool "Support for login scripts"
211 Enable this if you want login to execute $LOGIN_PRE_SUID_SCRIPT
212 just prior to switching from root to logged-in user.
214 config FEATURE_NOLOGIN
215 bool "Support for /etc/nologin"
219 The file /etc/nologin is used by (some versions of) login(1).
220 If it exists, non-root logins are prohibited.
222 config FEATURE_SECURETTY
223 bool "Support for /etc/securetty"
227 The file /etc/securetty is used by (some versions of) login(1).
228 The file contains the device names of tty lines (one per line,
229 without leading /dev/) on which root is allowed to login.
235 select FEATURE_SYSLOG
237 passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts. A normal user
238 may only change the password for his/her own account, the super user
239 may change the password for any account. The administrator of a group
240 may change the password for the group.
242 Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to
245 config FEATURE_PASSWD_WEAK_CHECK
246 bool "Check new passwords for weakness"
250 With this option passwd will refuse new passwords which are "weak".
256 Encrypts the given password with the crypt(3) libc function
257 using the given salt. Debian has this utility under mkpasswd
258 name. Busybox provides mkpasswd as an alias for cryptpw.
264 Reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard input
265 and uses this information to update a group of existing users.
271 select FEATURE_SYSLOG
273 su is used to become another user during a login session.
274 Invoked without a username, su defaults to becoming the super user.
276 Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to
279 config FEATURE_SU_SYSLOG
280 bool "Enable su to write to syslog"
284 config FEATURE_SU_CHECKS_SHELLS
285 bool "Enable su to check user's shell to be listed in /etc/shells"
292 select FEATURE_SYSLOG
294 sulogin is invoked when the system goes into single user
295 mode (this is done through an entry in inittab).
300 depends on PLATFORM_LINUX
303 Build the "vlock" applet which allows you to lock (virtual) terminals.
305 Note that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to