[oe] adduser question

[Koen Kooi]

On 29-11-08 19:08, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 18:08 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> adduser --system adds UIDs<100 to /etc/passwd, which 'update-passwd'
>> will blow away, since they aren't in /usr/share/base-passwd/passwd.master
>>
>> Is this intended behaviour, and if not, how should it get fixed?
>
> Whether or not to use passwd.master and update-passwd is clearly a
> distribution choice.  Any distro which does want to use a
> centrally-administered master password file should, presumably, also
> configure adduser with an appropriate system UID range (for example,
> 100-999).  Depending on what implementation of adduser you are using,
> this might just be a case of adjusting adduser.conf or it might involve
> a recompile.
>
> For distros which don't desire to use passwd.master, the right solution
> is simply to refrain from installing or running update-passwd.  In this
> case it doesn't matter what UID range adduser is set up for.

Thanks for the explanation, I'll have a stab at adding a proper adduser 
since we only have the busybox one in OE. The busybox adduser doesn't 
seem to support adduser.conf nor UID ranges.

regards,

Koen