Hi Nick,
On 20 Aug 2014, at 20:13, Crast, Nicholas <[email protected]> wrote:
> All,
>
> I am currently in the middle of a battle with yocto, trying to accomplish the
> following:
>
> 1.) Disable root user account
> 2.) Create default user account with default password
>
> I currently have the following a recipe:
> USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
> USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "-d /home/nick -r -s /bin/bash nick "
>
> In order to try to add a user account. I have this in my image recipe:
>
> ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "set_nick_passwd;"
> set_nick_passwd() {
> sed 's%^ nick:[^:]*:% nick:adySxRKMiPvjA:%' \
> < ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/shadow \
> > ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/shadow.new;
> mv ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/shadow.new ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/shadow ;
> }
>
> This is to edit the /etc/shadow file and insert a new (hashed) password. What
> I’m looking for is a cleaner way to do this. When I run bitbake I get a lot
> of warnings because the “nick” account is already an account on my build
> machine. This seems like a fairly common use case, and I think I am likely
> going about it wrong.
>
> Does anybody have any advice?
I've not tried it for a new user, but I use a .bbappend to base-passwd to set a
root password. Basically:
do_install_append() {
sed -i 's/root::/root:<new-hash>:/' $(D)${datadir}/base-passwd/passwd.master
}
>
> -Nick
> ----------------------------------------
> Nick Crast
> Associate Software Engineer
> Saab Sensis Corporation
> Phone: 315-445-5703
> Email: [email protected]
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