[yocto] How Do I add users in /etc/passwd in Yocto

[Amit Tomer]

Thanks Davide
Can you please point to right link.

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Davide Soldan
<davide.soldan at kynetics.it> wrote:
> In data martedì 22 ottobre 2013 14:00:22, Amit Tomer ha scritto:
>> For some requirement I wante to add some new users in /etc/passwd .
>>
>> I tried doing it in couple of way but none of it worked out well
>>
>> I tried to patcth the /etc/passwd file but getting few errors while
>> bitbaking my image.
>>
>> Paul Eggleton suggests me that patching /etc/passwd  file won't work
>>
>> Then I tried doing it in below way
>>
>> SRC_URI += "file://passwd"
>>
>> do_install_append() {
>> install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/base-passwd ${D}${sysconfdir}
>> passwd/passwd${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}${sysconfdir}/passwd
>>
>>                     install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/passwd ${D}${sysconfdir}/passwd
>> }
>>
>>  With above method I am able to add new user to /etc/passwd file
>>
>> but testing this image gives me trouble and now when I login to board
>> it is asking password.
>>
>> Now would like to know what are the ways to add new users in
>> /etc/passwd file in yocto.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Amit
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> I've done it creating my useradd recipe following
> poky/meta-skeleton/recipes-skeleton/useradd/useradd-example.bb