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

[Davide Soldan]

In data martedì 22 ottobre 2013 14:18:55, Amit Tomer ha scritto:
> Thanks Davide
> Can you please point to right link.
> 
I found the example recipe there:
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta-skeleton/recipes-skeleton/useradd/useradd-example.bb

> 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