On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 09:01:01PM -0700, Michael Forney wrote:
> I went looking through my sbase/ubase branches and found some more
> forgotten patches.
>
> = sbase =
> * http://lists.suckless.org/hackers/1702/14283.html
>
> sbase tar still needs a lot of work, but currently it is frustrating
> to see this message "malformed tar archive" since it could mean many
> different things. The patch just attaches a reason to the error
> message.
>
> = ubase =
> * http://lists.suckless.org/hackers/1610/13550.html - mount: Don't
> pass {,no}auto to kernel
>
> Otherwise, if you have an fstab entry with noauto (for example /boot),
> and try to run `mount /boot`, you'll get something like
>
> EXT4-fs (sda1): Unrecognized mount option "noauto" or missing value
>
> in your dmesg, and the mount will fail with EINVAL.
>
> * http://lists.suckless.org/hackers/1610/13551.html
>
> Currently, passwd does not use a salt for password hashes. It should.
> This patch uses the getrandom syscall to read 12 bytes from the
> urandom source, and base64-encodes that as a 16 byte salt.
>
Hey,
Thanks for your patches and the reminder. I've applied the patches.
Let me know if there are other patches that can be applied.
Sorry for the delay, sbase will need a new maintainer. This should be
discussed at the next hackathon.
--
Kind regards,
Hiltjo
Received on Tue Aug 22 2017 - 13:43:31 CEST