Creating user with Yocto works only partially

Question

I am trying to create a user to my system created using Yocto.

I have the following line in my recipe for my custom image:

inherit extrausers
EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS = " useradd -p 'myuser' -d /home/myuser --create-home myuser; "

The result is that I can't login as myuser, but I can change to myuser using su. What am I doing wrong?

Running this command on booted-up image works as expected? – Flewz Dec 08 '22 at 12:13 — Flewz, Dec 08 '22 at 12:13
It gives the same result as when run build-time. – TheAG Dec 09 '22 at 10:11 — TheAG, Dec 09 '22 at 10:11

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 08 '22 at 12:17

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useradd requires some manual work. Write up done on this post.

Use adduser instead.

answered Dec 08 '22 at 12:17

Flewz

Replacing useradd with adduser gives a build-time error about that line. – TheAG Dec 09 '22 at 10:16
@TheAG Did you only replace the command or did you look into its syntax? – Flewz Dec 09 '22 at 13:53
I first just replaced the command and the realized that I should have done a little more :) I then tested adduser in target system and noticed that it did what I wanted. The problem with it is that extrauser class in Yocto requires you to use useradd and not adduser. – TheAG Dec 10 '22 at 15:07

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