Re: [poky] Creating a hash of a password for my recipe to add a user

On 3/4/25 4:26 PM, Alexander Kanavin via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> You probably need to study the logs for the recipe (in
> ${WORKDIR}/temp) to see what useradd command line actually looks like.
> Possibly something gets mangled?
> 
> You can also experiment with this on the target (e.g add more users
> and see if you can login as them).
> 
> Alex
> 
> On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 at 22:42, John via lists.yoctoproject.org
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I tried the extrausers class and I didn't get any errors but I also got no joy. Nothing was created on the target and I moved onto using the adduser example from the meta-skeleton directories. I have joy now, the additional user is created and I can see the user's home directory various entries required in all of the relevant files. yay!
>>
>> However I have this line in my recipe (ignore the underline):
>>
>>
>> NEWGUY_PASSWORD = "\$6\$zap5cUSDzKQyKfmL\$g8RRKqDw8U9BlmQFO2GLDPvcGe5mWSnwhMtYbDeKpPEDULJ2yLUhI6oHP4xq/p7fbE2SftFy4bvPd.ZsHVS55."
>>
>>
>> I then have this to set the parameters for the added user:
>>
>>
>> USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = " -d /home/newguy \
>>                          -m \
>>                          -G tty,audio \
>>                          -p ${NEWGUY_PASSWORD} \

It's single quoted in the meta-skeleton recipe, so maybe consider doing 
that as well?

>>                          -U newguy \
>>                        "
>>
>> I can't login to the board using the password I created using the command:
>>
>> mkpasswd -m sha512crypt <yeah right... nice try>
>>

We do document how to generate the password in the docs:

printf "%q" $(mkpasswd -m sha256crypt <your-pass>)

With <your-pass> being replaced with the actual string you want to use 
as password.

I don't know if sha512crypt is supported (maybe, but I don't know :) ).

Cheers,
Quentin