Re: Create dir with 700 permissions from recipe

[Graeme Gregory <dp@xora.org.uk>]

s hakkesteegt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For a recipe I want to use locally to enable public key authentication on my
> images, I'm trying to create the .ssh dir with 700 permissions. But this
> doesn't seem to work. It ends up in the rootfs and in the ipk with 775
> permissions, although in the work dir it has the correct 700 permissions.
> This is the recipe I created:
>
>
> SRC_URI=" \
>                     file://authorized_keys \
>        "
>
> FILES_${PN}=" /home/root/.ssh \
>                        /home/root/.ssh/authorized_keys \
>            "
>
> do_install(){
>        install -m 0700 -d ${D}/home/root/.ssh
>        install -m 0600 ${WORKDIR}/authorized_keys
> ${D}/home/root/.ssh/authorized_keys
> }
>
>
> On irc was suggested to use postinst script. So I tried to add the next at
> the end of the recipe.:
>
>
> pkg_postinst_${PN}-chmodsshdir () {
>         chmod 700 /home/root/.ssh
> }
>
>   
You above recipe doesnt create a package called.

${PN}-chmodsshdir

you also need to add something like

if test "x$D" != "x"; then
    exit
fi

to the beginning of the postinst to stop it running during image creation.

Graeme