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

[Amit Tomer]

Thanks Paul for your suggestion
Method of modifying in base-passws is somehow not working for us
Let us try your suggestion.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 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
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