Re: [PATCH V5 0/3] Add a method for image level user/group configuration

[Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>]

On 07/15/2013 11:27 PM, Qi.Chen@windriver.com wrote:
> From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
>
> Changes from V4:
> 1. Take into consideration the possibility of whitespaces in /etc/passwd and /etc/group
> 2. Change bbfatal in perform_usermod and perform_groupmod to bbwarn. Please see detailed reason below.
>
> PackageA pulls in userA.
> Now we want userA to map to a fixed user ID without having to worry whether PackageA is installed.
> We can now use the following configuration to achieve this requirement.
> EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS += "
> usermod, -u 2013 userA; \
> "

What happens files that userA might have already created outside the 
home directory? I know that usermod will fixup the home directory and 
some mail related files.

Sau!


> After this configuration, if PacakgeA is installed in our image, the user ID is modified to 2013;
> otherwise, there's no change in /etc/passwd, i.e., userA will not be added to /etc/passwd silently.
>
> Hope this information will be useful.
>
> //Chen Qi
>
>
> The following changes since commit a63229917a5708de2d161aba0d67168ce0da6365:
>
>    meta-yocto-bsp: update reference board SRCREVs (2013-07-10 09:45:51 +0100)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>    git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib ChenQi/extrausers
>    http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=ChenQi/extrausers
>
> Chen Qi (3):
>    useradd_base.bbclass: add a new bbclass
>    useradd.bbclass: code refactor
>    extrausers.bbclass: add a new bbclass
>
>   meta/classes/extrausers.bbclass   |   61 ++++++++++
>   meta/classes/useradd.bbclass      |   99 ++--------------
>   meta/classes/useradd_base.bbclass |  230 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 299 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 meta/classes/extrausers.bbclass
>   create mode 100644 meta/classes/useradd_base.bbclass
>