From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] adding users in readonly file system
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:04:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5230DAE1.30603@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378879598226-51085.post@n4.nabble.com>
On 11/09/13 08:06, sajjadi335 wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have searched for a while for this, but have not been able to find
> anything. I am not familiar with how linux manages users. So this might be
> something obvious I don't know.
> My problem is I have an embedded system with a readonly root fs, and I want
> to
> - add a user to the system.
> - Change both the root and the user password.
> How could that be done?
The users are in /etc/passwd and the passwords in /etc/shadow. If you
need to be able to modify these at runtime, you can move them to
$(TARGET_DIR)/tmp in the post-build script and make symlinks to them.
Regards,
Arnout
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2013-09-11 6:06 [Buildroot] adding users in readonly file system sajjadi335
2013-09-11 18:40 ` Michael Rommel
2013-09-11 21:04 ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
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