5612 2013-11-29 16:55:10 +0000 If no passwd/group files exist in sysroot, users/groups are picked up from /etc 2014-04-18 07:54:06 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core core 1.5 x86 Multiple RESOLVED DUPLICATE 6124 Medium normal 1.6 1 peter.kjellerstedt sgw liezhi.yang meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher Qi.Chen seebs tomw --- --- Don't know oldest_to_newest 39150 0 peter.kjellerstedt 2013-11-29 16:55:10 +0000 [ To simplify the description I will only use groups as an example, but everything applies to users as well. ] If there is no group file in the etc directory of the sysroot, /etc/group will be used instead. This means that one can succeed in building a recipe where a group is used that exists in /etc/group if no group file is in the sysroot, but the recipe will fail to build later when base-passwd has been installed and the group file in the sysroot does not contain the used group. 39389 1 Qi.Chen 2013-12-13 08:00:03 +0000 How about making such recipe dependent on base-passwd? //Chen Qi 39458 2 sgw 2013-12-17 19:36:14 +0000 Do you use the useradd.bbclass to modify the user or group files? It has a dependency on base-passwd as Chen Qi suggests. How are you modifing the group file? 39459 3 peter.kjellerstedt 2013-12-18 00:16:42 +0000 Well, for recipes that need to add users and/or groups in addition to what base-passwd provides, useradd.bbclass is appropriate. However, I am talking about recipes that only use the users and groups provided by base-passwd. In Poky, there are only two recipes that depend on base-passwd: sysvinit and shadow-sysroot. Any other recipe that installs files (and that should be just about every single recipe) relies on the fact that the users and groups in /etc are similar enough to the ones provided by bass-passwd, most notably that root exists. That said, this may be more of a theoretical problem as the likelihood of having a host system without a user called "root" is pretty slim... 39842 4 seebs 2014-01-15 19:22:57 +0000 It would make sense to change that behavior in pseudo, I would be inclined to have pseudo use a small built-in passwd/group set instead of the host system's in that case. 42513 5 peter.kjellerstedt 2014-04-10 11:32:18 +0000 Not sure what more info I am expected to provide... 42730 6 liezhi.yang 2014-04-18 07:54:06 +0000 Duplicated to 6124. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 6124 ***