[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] base-passwd: disable problematic login.defs options

[Khem Raj]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> On 6/17/11 1:10 PM, Scott Garman wrote:
>> On 06/17/2011 10:22 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 17:19, Scott Garman<scott.a.garman at intel.com>  wrote:
>>>> Sorry, I forgot to mention that shadow-utils-native is what is used to
>>>> modify the passwd/group files in the target sysroot. It seems that having a
>>>> -native recipe install files into a target sysroot would be worse than
>>>> including an optional file with base-passwd that may or may not be used in
>>>> target systems.
>>>
>>> Why not make an shadow-target package with this?
>>
>> To just install a login.defs file? I'm open to it if a few more people
>> think this is a better idea.
>
> The file is needed in order for the utilities that add, remove and modify
> users/groups to function properly.  The full version from shadow utils is used
> so we are sure we can dead with both shadow-less and shadowed filesystem images.
>  (It's also more full featured then busybox, yet busybox is still compatible
> with it.)
>
Will shadow be able to override this file ?
one thing I see is that it wont get any updates that shadow might
do to this file in future.

> As for the separate package, that should be fine.. but remember this is a very
> small file, so is it worth "another" package?  (If so, then base-files likely
> should depend on it for build-time, but not run-time.)
>
> --Mark
>
>> Scott
>>
>
>
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