From 8b20bfafdf804598199364d05ab83a6f27882a42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jo-Philipp Wich <jow@openwrt.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:02:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] base-files: prime root password with "x" to notify programs
 that there is a shadow record, fix /bin/login.sh password detection
 accordingly. Solves broken key based dropbear login with empty password after
 r28935.

SVN-Revision: 29130
---
 package/base-files/Makefile           | 2 +-
 package/base-files/files/bin/login.sh | 5 ++++-
 package/base-files/files/etc/passwd   | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package/base-files/Makefile b/package/base-files/Makefile
index c515dcf7b1..90c68cd175 100644
--- a/package/base-files/Makefile
+++ b/package/base-files/Makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/kernel.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=base-files
-PKG_RELEASE:=93
+PKG_RELEASE:=94
 
 PKG_FILE_DEPENDS:=$(PLATFORM_DIR)/ $(GENERIC_PLATFORM_DIR)/base-files/
 PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS:=opkg/host
diff --git a/package/base-files/files/bin/login.sh b/package/base-files/files/bin/login.sh
index b46769a012..6682b022ba 100755
--- a/package/base-files/files/bin/login.sh
+++ b/package/base-files/files/bin/login.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # Copyright (C) 2006-2011 OpenWrt.org
 
-if grep -qs '^root:[^!:]' /etc/passwd /etc/shadow && [ -z "$FAILSAFE" ]; then
+if ( ! grep -qs '^root::' /etc/shadow || \
+     ! grep -qs '^root:[!x]\?:' /etc/passwd ) && \
+   [ -z "$FAILSAFE" ]
+then
 	echo "Login failed."
 	exit 0
 else
diff --git a/package/base-files/files/etc/passwd b/package/base-files/files/etc/passwd
index ca4fbad1b8..1d06a80361 100644
--- a/package/base-files/files/etc/passwd
+++ b/package/base-files/files/etc/passwd
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/ash
+root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/ash
 daemon:*:1:1:daemon:/var:/bin/false
 ftp:*:55:55:ftp:/home/ftp:/bin/false
 network:*:101:101:network:/var:/bin/false
-- 
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