[yocto] Setting up a password for the root user

[Stefano Cappa]

>From a security point of view, Is it better to use  "usermod -p `openssl
passwd mypass` root; \" or with uppercase P "usermod -P mypass root; \" ?


Il giorno sab 12 gen 2019 alle ore 04:38 Rudolf J Streif <
rudolf.streif at ibeeto.com> ha scritto:

> Alberto,
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> The quotes around
>
> `openssl passwd ${ROOT_PASSWORD}`
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> have to be backticks (`) not single quotes (').
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> :rjs
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> 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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>
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> openssl passwd secret
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>
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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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>
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> Alberto
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