[yocto] Setting root password

[Daniel.]

Still, I think is a good ideia to understand what is going wrong with
EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS, other users may having the same problem.

Regards,
- dhs

2015-09-24 11:16 GMT-03:00 Daniel. <danielhilst at gmail.com>:

> My image .class file has includes a lot of recipes that I wrote for
> specific reasons so it will not work as it is for you without that recipes,
> instead here is the minimal you may need to get this working. I use a class
> file because I have lot of images differing in little things, like which
> kernel modules are auto loaded. So for your case I think this simple recipe
> would suffice. If you want you can save this as .class file and import from
> other images as I do.
>
> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=1qds5hKF
>
> Regards,
> - dhs
>
> 2015-09-24 10:59 GMT-03:00 Andy Pont <andy.pont at sdcsystems.com>:
>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> > I didn't know about this EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS. What I do is adding this
>> function to
>> > my image.
>> > # This function sets the password for root based on ROOT_PASSWD variable
>> > set_root_password () {
>> >         local p=$(openssl passwd -1 -salt "My salt" "${ROOT_PASSWD}")
>> >        sed -e "s/root:[^:]*:/root:${p}:/" -i ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/shadow
>> > }
>> > And append it to ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND:
>> > ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "set_root_password; "
>> > I did all this in a class file which I import on all my images,
>>
>> As your method works and the EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS appears not to be doing
>> could you send me your class file to save me having to reinvent the wheel?
>>
>> > About your problem, can you get the "usermod" error from log.do_rootfs
>>
>> The end of the log.do_roots file just contains the following:
>>
>> NOTE: Executing set_user_group ...
>> DEBUG: Executing shell function set_user_group
>> NOTE: Performing usermod with [-R
>> XXXXX/build/tmp/work/intel_core2_32-poky-linux/core-image-minimal-initramfs/1.0-r0/rootfs
>> -P Hkw6rBJlcfhvM root] and 1 times of retry
>> Server refused shutdown.  Remaining client fds: 2
>> Client pids: 3878 16245
>> Server will shut down after all clients exit.
>> WARNING: usermod command did not succeed. Retrying...
>> ERROR: Tried running usermod command 1 times without success, giving up
>> WARNING:
>> XXXXX/build/tmp/work/intel_core2_32-poky-linux/core-image-minimal-initramfs/1.0-r0/temp/run.set_user_group.3878:1
>> exit 1 from
>>   exit 1
>> DEBUG: Python function do_rootfs finished
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andy.
>>
>>
>
>
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>



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