[yocto] want to execute a script having sudo : sudo cryptsetup

[Randy MacLeod]

On 2017-09-27 01:28 PM, John Finley wrote:
> pseudo can't do some of the cryptsetup functions that really require 
> root, or at least I could not convince it to. Using sudo is not so good, 
> but I don't think there's an easy way around it for the cryptsetup stuff.

If you can narrow down what's missing, and open an enhancement request
for oe-core-2.5 that would be helpful.

Please take a quick look to see if your ER is it already in this list:
 
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=pseudo&list_id=601276

Sorting by the product column will help.

../Randy
> 
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com 
> <mailto:raj.khem at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
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>     On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 9:21 AM John Finley <john.finley at gmail.com
>     <mailto:john.finley at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Try making it so the user doing the build is not prompted for a
>         password when they do "sudo". I have this in my vm:
> 
> 
>     I think you can leverage pseudo tool to emulate the root user during
>     build
> 
>              john at vbox-ubuntu-16$ cat /etc/sudoers.d/john
>              john ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
>              john at vbox-ubuntu-16$
>         I don't know if that's all that's needed; I have to google it
>         every time.
> 
>         On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 2:48 AM, Kumar, Shrawan
>         <Shrawan.Kumar at harman.com <mailto:Shrawan.Kumar at harman.com>> wrote:
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>             Hello Team ,____
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>             I am trying to achieve below from yocto , do we have a way
>               ?____
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>             dd if=/dev/zero of=hello.enc bs=4k count=$400____
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>             mknod /dev/loop_dev_0____
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>             losetup /dev/loop_dev_0 hello.enc____
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>             *_sudo_* cryptsetup --type=plain open /dev/loop_dev_0
>               plainMap < $2____
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>             Thanks and Regards____
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>             Shrawan____
> 



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