[yocto] default root password

[Diego Sueiro]

2013/10/17 Bryan Evenson <bevenson at melinkcorp.com>

> I know there is the EXTRA_USER_PARAMS feature for adding users and
> modifying a user's password, but I couldn't get it to work for root.  I
> tried adding:
>
> INHERIT += "extrausers"
> EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS = "\
>     usermod -p '<encrypted_password_goes_here>' root; \
>     "
>
> and I would get errors when building the image.  I can't remember the
> errors I got, but I couldn't get the build to complete when I tried to
> modify the root password in this manner.  The other way worked so I went
> with that.
>

Bryan,

I've tried that too.The issue raised for me was related to INHERIT +=
"extrausers", as soon as, it is not present on dylan branch.
So, I solved that with ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND strategy.

Regards,

--
*dS
Diego Sueiro

/*long live rock 'n roll*/
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