[OE-core] recipes that inherit useradd delete users in do_configure

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Slater, Joseph
<joe.slater at windriver.com> wrote:
> This might or might not be a bug, but it does lead to unpleasant behavior if
> two recipes create the same user.  They probably should not, but who's
> stopping them?
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> I realize they are not in oe-core, but proftpd and vsftpd are an example of
> this.  We have seen failures when building world because proftpd creates
> "ftp",
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> then vsftpd deletes it, then proftpd tries to chown a directory to the
> now-gone "ftp".
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> Is this a recipe by recipe issue, or should something be changed in the
> behavior of useradd.bbclass?

I think we do the user creation during sysroot phase, so may be it can keep
an account of user creation/deletion, and emit a diagnostic about it.
in the end there always will be packages who step over each other, we need
to catch it at right spot.

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> Joe
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