[Buildroot] adding users in readonly file system

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 11/09/13 08:06, sajjadi335 wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have searched for a while for this, but have not been able to find
> anything. I am not familiar with how linux manages users. So this might be
> something obvious I don't know.
> My problem is I have an embedded system with a readonly root fs, and I want
> to
> - add a user to the system.
> - Change both the root and the user password.
> How could that be done?

  The users are in /etc/passwd and the passwords in /etc/shadow. If you 
need to be able to modify these at runtime, you can move them to 
$(TARGET_DIR)/tmp in the post-build script and make symlinks to them.

  Regards,
  Arnout


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