[BusyBox] tinylogin

[Vladimir N. Oleynik]

Tomi,
 
> Monday Aug 20 11:27:54 +0400 2001 Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo at simtreas.ru> wrote:
> > Goetz Bock wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, Aug 19 '01 at 02:43, Per Wigren wrote:
> > > > Why isn't tinylogin integrated into busybox? Wouldn't it save a whole bunch
> > > > of bytes to have it integrated instead of separate?
> > > This comes up every once in a while and AFAIK the answer is:
> > >
> > > While it would save quite some bytes, it is not the aim of busybox to be
> > > used for a regular system, but rather for a setup disk. For a setup disk
> > > tinylogins functionality is not needed.
> >
> > 1) Slackware have agetty+login in setup disk.
> > 2) Opportunities busybox are much wider, than setup disk.
> 
> And even in "setup disk" I have:
> 
> glibc
> ash        (next time I will use busybox's ash)
> busybox
> tinylogin  (without telnetd if there is any)
> "e2fsbox"
> "fdiskbox" (fdisk & sfdisk)
> "sshdbox"  (sshd & ssh-keygen)
> 
> If I didn't need any tinylogin programs in busybox, I could disable
> those in the configuration file.

Similar it is not enough of us, interested persons it to convince mantainers. 
However as against sshd, tynylogin very quickly it is possible to unit with
busybox 
(that I and do the many year and already with the order has bothered to correct
applets,
Config, usage, Makefile with an output of new versions and it is especial for
reception 
real patches).  


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vodz