Bug 2012

Summary: shadow-native logs to syslog
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Andreas Oberritter <obi>
Component: coreAssignee: Scott Garman <scott.a.garman>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: jessica.zhang, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 1.2 M4   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard: (P3) 2012-04-05: Patch submitted to oe-core ML (1.2)
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: ---

Description Andreas Oberritter 2012-02-21 14:15:59 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Scott Garman 2012-04-10 17:38:10 UTC 
Fixed in oe-core and poky master as of:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=c54831fa897b43944d53db5e6b898e1c828fd582