On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:15:40PM -0500, Mark Hatle wrote: > On 7/5/13 3:39 AM, Martin Jansa wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 02:07:28PM +0800, qi.c...@windriver.com wrote: > >> From: Chen Qi <qi.c...@windriver.com> > >> > >> We may want to add a user or group which does not logically belong to > >> any specific package. For example, we may want to add a user with the > >> name 'tester' to our image. Besides, we may want to delete or modify > >> user/group in our image. > >> > >> This patch adds a variable, USER_GROUP_SETTINGS, which is dedicated > >> to these tasks. The configuration format is detailed in the local.conf. > >> sample.extended file. > >> > >> This patch also adds a function, set_user_group, which happens at > >> the end of the ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND. It handles the settings > >> in the USER_GROUP_SETTINGS variable. > > > > Why not use extra package just with user? > > > > See "[PATCH v3 0/5] Allow xuser to shutdown (cover letter only)" > > The issue is that the users don't want extra (empty) packages to just add > standard users/groups. What they want is a post image-generation > "configuration" mechanism. > > Adding users/groups is one of the basic items that they want/need. This > really > has to be considered to be an administrative activity vs a distribution > activity. (I.e. difference between creating a package and performing some > kind > of post-image action.) > > The other issue with a package based approach is it then mandates changes > occur > by having to rebuild/reinstall packages. This is onerous in my experience, > for > something basic like this. It's really outside of the package manager's > control.
We can have all users in one package base-users (like we have base-files) It can allow someone to just define DEFAULT_USERS = "a b c" in local.conf and let base-users recipe to create all 3 automatically. Post image-generation mechanism doesn't allow to add new required users in "upgrade" or installing packages from binary feed with all required users accounts. -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com
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