2012 2012-02-21 14:15:59 +0000 shadow-native logs to syslog 2012-04-10 17:38:10 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core core unspecified x86 Multiple RESOLVED FIXED (P3) 2012-04-05: Patch submitted to oe-core ML (1.2) Medium normal 1.2 M4 1 obi scott.a.garman jessica.zhang meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher --- --- --- oldest_to_newest 18675 0 obi 2012-02-21 14:15:59 +0000 When building an image with OE-core, the following messages appeared in syslog, suggesting that new accounts have been created at the host running bitbake: Feb 21 21:10:11 xxx groupadd[14819]: group added to /etc/group: name=netdev, GID=999 Feb 21 21:10:11 xxx groupadd[14819]: new group: name=netdev, GID=999 Feb 21 21:10:11 xxx useradd[15092]: new group: name=messagebus, GID=998 Feb 21 21:10:11 xxx useradd[15092]: new user: name=messagebus, UID=999, GID=998, home=/var/lib/dbus, shell=/bin/false Feb 21 22:00:34 xxx useradd[4433]: new group: name=avahi, GID=997 Feb 21 22:00:34 xxx useradd[4433]: new user: name=avahi, UID=998, GID=997, home=/var/run/avahi-daemon, shell=/bin/false Although these accounts are in fact only created inside a sysroot, I think it's rather scary to find such messages in the log. 20139 1 scott.a.garman 2012-04-10 17:38:10 +0000 Fixed in oe-core and poky master as of: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=c54831fa897b43944d53db5e6b898e1c828fd582