On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Julian Pidancet <julian.pidan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Saul Wold <s...@linux.intel.com> wrote: >> >> Is there a reason you did not include the group and --disable-password here? >> >> I think it would be good to leave thelong name options in also. >> >> Sau! >> > > The -U option creates a group with the same name. The > --disable-password option only exists with adduser and is default with > useradd -r. > I'd just like to point out that adduser is originally a perl script > from debian and reimplemented in busybox. The options it takes are not > compatible with the more standard useradd from the shadow package. > > For some reason, some long options like --system (which is supposed to > be supported in useradd) did not work during my first > experimentations, but I will investigate and respin a patch with long > options if possible. > > Also, I discovered that the following recipes still depends on adduser: > ppp-dialin, avahi, distcc, xserver-nodm-init, pulseaudio, hal, dbus > > It would be good to use the useradd class with all of them. >
In the shadow-sysroot package that we build to be able to use the useradd class, we apply the add_root_cmd_options.patch to add the --root option to useradd. The --root option allows useradd to chroot somewhere so it can modify /etc/passwd, but at the same time, it disables all the other long options in the program. It looks like it is impossible to use long options with the useradd class. I don't know how straighforward it would be to modify this patch to get the long options back. But is it worth the pain ? -- Julian _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
