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| -rw-r--r-- | Config.in | 52 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 15 deletions
@@ -13,6 +13,22 @@ menu "Busybox Settings" menu "General Configuration" +config CONFIG_NITPICK + bool "See lots more (probably unnecessary) configuration options." + default n + help + Some BusyBox applets have more configuration options than anyone + will ever care about. To avoid drowining people in complexity, most + of the applet features that can be set to a sane default value are + hidden, unless you hit the above switch. + + This is better than to telling people to edit the busybox source + code, but not by much. + + See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly#The_Closet + + You have been warned. + choice prompt "Buffer allocation policy" default CONFIG_FEATURE_BUFFERS_USE_MALLOC @@ -81,19 +97,12 @@ config CONFIG_LOCALE_SUPPORT busybox to support locale settings. config CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG - bool "Enable getopt long (system needs struct option for this to work)" + bool "Enable support for --long-options" default n depends on !CONFIG_NO_GETOPT_LONG help - EXPERIMENTAL! - Enable this if your system support long options for getopt and - you want to use them in busybox. - -# remove this comment to disable getopt_long per default. -#config CONFIG_NO_GETOPT_LONG -# bool -# default y -# depends on !CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG + Enable this if you want busybox applets to use the gnu --long-option + style, in addition to single character -a -b -c style options. config CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVFS bool "Use devfs names for devices" @@ -103,6 +112,9 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVFS /dev/loop0. If your /dev directory has normal names instead of devfs names, you don't want this. + This is obsolete and will be going away someday. Consider it + deprecated. + config CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVPTS bool "Use the devpts filesystem for Unix98 PTYs" default y if CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVFS @@ -111,7 +123,7 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVPTS busybox will use /dev/ptmx for the master side of the pseudoterminal and /dev/pts/<number> for the slave side. Otherwise, BSD style /dev/ttyp<number> will be used. To use this option, you should have - devpts or devfs mounted. + devpts mounted. config CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP bool "Clean up all memory before exiting (usually not needed)" @@ -129,15 +141,25 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID bool "Support for SUID/SGID handling" default n help - Support SUID and SGID binaries. + With this option you can install the busybox binary belonging + to root with the suid bit set, and it'll and it'll automatically drop + priviledges for applets that don't need root access. + + If you're really paranoid and don't want to do this, build two + busybox binaries with different applets in them (and the appropriate + symlinks pointing to each binary), and only set the suid bit on the + one that needs it. The applets currently marked to need the suid bit + are login, passwd, su, ping, traceroute, crontab, dnsd, ipcrm, ipcs, + and vlock. config CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG bool "Runtime SUID/SGID configuration via /etc/busybox.conf" default n if CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID depends on CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID help - Allow the SUID / SGID state of an applet to be determined runtime by - checking /etc/busybox.conf. The format of this file is as follows: + Allow the SUID / SGID state of an applet to be determined at runtime + by checking /etc/busybox.conf. (This is sort of a poor man's sudo.) + The format of this file is as follows: <applet> = [Ssx-][Ssx-][x-] (<username>|<uid>).(<groupname>|<gid>) @@ -164,7 +186,7 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG config CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG_QUIET bool "Suppress warning message if /etc/busybox.conf is not readable" - default n + default y depends on CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG help /etc/busybox.conf should be readable by the user needing the SUID, check |