[yocto] Setting up a password for the root user

[Rudolf J Streif]

Alberto,

The quotes around

`openssl passwd ${ROOT_PASSWORD}`

have to be backticks (`) not single quotes (').

:rjs


On 01/11/2019 07:41 AM, Alberto Spin wrote:
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> Hello There,
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> I’m trying to set a password for the root user of my distribution
> (based rocko branch)
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> I’ve added the following to my image recipe:
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> inherit extrausers
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> # set image root password
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> ROOT_PASSWORD = "secret"
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> EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS = "\
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>     usermod -p 'openssl passwd ${ROOT_PASSWORD}' root; \
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>     "
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> Everything builds fine, but in my image I end up with a password in my
> /etc/shadow file like this:
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> openssl passwd secret
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> so it seems like the openssl command has not been executed during the
> build, but instead the literal command is now part of my password.
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> Can anybody please explain what’s going on here, and how to fix this?
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> Kind Regards,
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> Alberto
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