On 06/19/2011 07:41 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Mark Hatle<[email protected]> wrote:
On 6/17/11 1:10 PM, Scott Garman wrote:
On 06/17/2011 10:22 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 17:19, Scott Garman<[email protected]> wrote:
Sorry, I forgot to mention that shadow-utils-native is what is used to
modify the passwd/group files in the target sysroot. It seems that having a
-native recipe install files into a target sysroot would be worse than
including an optional file with base-passwd that may or may not be used in
target systems.
Why not make an shadow-target package with this?
To just install a login.defs file? I'm open to it if a few more people
think this is a better idea.
The file is needed in order for the utilities that add, remove and modify
users/groups to function properly. The full version from shadow utils is used
so we are sure we can dead with both shadow-less and shadowed filesystem images.
(It's also more full featured then busybox, yet busybox is still compatible
with it.)
Will shadow be able to override this file ?
one thing I see is that it wont get any updates that shadow might
do to this file in future.
Now that I think of it, the reason Koen ran into the error messages was
that the login.defs I shipped with base-passwd had various variables
uncommented that the shadow recipe comments out (there's a sed script
included with shadow which does this). Which means that his image, which
had shadow installed, was *not* overriding the login.defs from base-passwd.
I'm now convinced that creating a shadow-cross package which just ships
a login.defs file is the right thing to do, and to remove it from
base-passwd. Thanks everyone for the feedback thus far.
I will be away at a conference for most of this coming week, but will
try to squeeze this in on Monday.
Scott
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Intel Open Source Technology Center
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