From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L6Uas-0000rI-2D for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:31:02 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L6UXg-0002vs-Jf for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:27:44 +0000 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:27:44 +0000 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:27:44 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:27:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1227982104.23391.314.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081120 Shredder/3.0b1pre In-Reply-To: <1227982104.23391.314.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: adduser question X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:31:02 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 29-11-08 19:08, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 18:08 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: >> adduser --system adds UIDs<100 to /etc/passwd, which 'update-passwd' >> will blow away, since they aren't in /usr/share/base-passwd/passwd.master >> >> Is this intended behaviour, and if not, how should it get fixed? > > Whether or not to use passwd.master and update-passwd is clearly a > distribution choice. Any distro which does want to use a > centrally-administered master password file should, presumably, also > configure adduser with an appropriate system UID range (for example, > 100-999). Depending on what implementation of adduser you are using, > this might just be a case of adjusting adduser.conf or it might involve > a recompile. > > For distros which don't desire to use passwd.master, the right solution > is simply to refrain from installing or running update-passwd. In this > case it doesn't matter what UID range adduser is set up for. Thanks for the explanation, I'll have a stab at adding a proper adduser since we only have the busybox one in OE. The busybox adduser doesn't seem to support adduser.conf nor UID ranges. regards, Koen