From e135458415dea5bbc4651e05dafe0b6903b65751 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Kanavin Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:22:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] fragments: add a 'root-login-with-empty-password' fragment Please see this for background/some discussion: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-architecture/topic/115913545 Care should be taken to not enable this by default, and especially not for production images. Poky and oe-core default templates did it, and it was not a good starting point. Hopefully the fragment name, and the description that users will see when enabling the fragment will provide enough warning. Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin Signed-off-by: Mathieu Dubois-Briand Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- .../yocto/root-login-with-empty-password.conf | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 meta/conf/fragments/yocto/root-login-with-empty-password.conf diff --git a/meta/conf/fragments/yocto/root-login-with-empty-password.conf b/meta/conf/fragments/yocto/root-login-with-empty-password.conf new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..86aec0e152 --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/conf/fragments/yocto/root-login-with-empty-password.conf @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +BB_CONF_FRAGMENT_SUMMARY = "Log in as root without password on serial console and over ssh (use with caution)." +BB_CONF_FRAGMENT_DESCRIPTION = "By default images are built such that root login is disabled \ +(which is the preferred, secure default). However, for testing and development purposes it can \ +be beneficial to be able to log in as root, both on serial console and over ssh connections, \ +which is what this fragment enables. Use with great caution, and ideally only in tightly \ +controlled local builds and CI testing environments, and never in artefacts that are deployed \ +into products. \ +" + +EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES += "allow-empty-password empty-root-password allow-root-login" -- 2.47.3