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Rudi wrote=85

> > Still, I think is a good ideia to understand what is going wrong =
with
> > EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS, other users may having the same problem.
>
> EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS works for me all the time. The stanza is what I am
using=20
> in my image recipes:
>=A0
> EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS =3D "\
> groupadd developers; \
> useradd -p `openssl passwd ${DEV_PASSWORD}` developer; \
> useradd -g developers developer; \
> usermod -p `openssl passwd ${ROOT_PASSWORD}` root; \
>"
>
> If this is an accurate copy of what you are using
>
> EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS =3D "usermod -P <encrypted_password> root;"
>
> then the issue probably is the capital -P. It should be lowercase.

Good spot.  I copied and pasted it from an article I found on the web!
Having changed it to lower case it now works as expected!

Thanks,

Andy.