On Wednesday 22 April 2015 07:00:50 Chris Morgan wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 4:10 AM, Paul Eggleton > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 April 2015 18:54:29 Khem Raj wrote: > >> Hi Chris > >> > >> > On Apr 21, 2015, at 6:27 PM, Chris Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hello. > >> > > >> > Based on > >> > http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#ref > >> > -c > >> > lasses-extrausers and the .bbclass file I've added this to a .bbappend, > >> > pulseaudio_%.bbappend actually so root user can use pactl when > >> > pulseaudio is running in system mode: > >> > > >> > inherit extrausers > >> > EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS = "\ > >> > > >> > usermod -a -G audio root \ > >> > > >> > " > >> > > >> > > >> > From the .bbappend this isn't working. If instead I add it to our > >> > custom image file recipe (image-blah.bb) it does work. > >> > >> its a image level config so thats right behavior. > >> > >> > I'm not sure how to debug or why it isn't working from the .bbappend. > >> > Thoughts? > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > Also, the documentation in the .bbclass seems out of date but wanted to > >> > confirm: > >> > > >> > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/plain/meta/classes/extrausers > >> > .bb > >> > class > >> > > >> > shows: > >> > > >> > Below is an example showing how to use this functionality. > >> > # INHERIT += "extrausers" > >> > # EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS = "\ > >> > # useradd -p '' tester; \ > >> > # groupadd developers; \ > >> > # userdel nobody; \ > >> > # groupdel -g video; \ > >> > # groupmod -g 1020 developers; \ > >> > # usermod -s /bin/sh tester; \ > >> > # " > >> > > >> > This INHERIT vs. inherit seems like it could be something that changed > >> > in bitbake in the past but was left over in the .bbclass. > >> > >> its correct because its assuming you are adding it to config metadata and > >> not recipe metadata may be location is not right. Send a patch > > > > It should work either in the image recipe (with inherit) or at the > > configuration level (with INHERIT +=), but I agree extrausers not intended > > to work from individual recipes, we have useradd for that. > > Looked at useradd source and documentation and skeleton example but I > don't see a way to add another specific user to a group. > > I had been looking to use extrausers with 'usermod' in the > pulseaudio_%.bbappend because the pulseaudio.inc base recipe file is > the one creating the 'audio' group and adding the 'pulse' user to it. > So it seemed like an appropriate recipe to add to to also add root to > the 'audio' group. > > Am I missing some way of doing this with useradd or should I just be > modifying the top level image recipe to resolve this issue?
I don't believe useradd.bbclass can be used to solve this, no. You probably need to use extrausers.bbclass from the image recipe. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
