[yocto] How /etc/passwd packed into my final image

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 16 October 2013 10:20:24 Davide Soldan wrote:
> In data mercoledì 16 ottobre 2013 00:01:13, Amit Tomer ha scritto:
> > I wanted to modify the content of /etc/passwd but don't know how
> > /etc/passwd files is packed into final image
> > 
> > After the build process ,passwd file goes to
> > 
> > "tmp/work/k2-poky-linux-gnueabi/image-k2/1.0-r0/rootfs/etc/passwd"
> > 
> > this loaction
> > 
> > Now I see image-k2.bb file but could not find any rule that will pack
> > passwd file to
> > final image.
> > 
> > Can anybody how it is packed and way to modify it.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Amit
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> Hi,
> I think that the recipe that creates passwd file is under
> poky/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd (I'm on dora branch). Maybe with a
> bbappend of that recipe you can change the passwd file with yours... Cheers

Rather than modifying it in base-passwd, with master or 1.5 I'd recommend 
using extrausers.bbclass / EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS (see meta-
yocto/conf/local.conf.sample.extended for an example of how to use it).

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre