Re: Expired root user

[Claudius Heine <ch@denx.de>]

Hi Quirin,

On 2022-05-05 17:27, Gylstorff Quirin wrote:
[...]
> 
> Possible solutions are:
> - moving the account creation / modification to the rootfs postprocessing
> - using the systemd first boot service[3] for changing the root password
> 
> Claudius was there are reason why the accounts are created/modified 
> before installing the rootfs? You add the functionality with
> 163f50 meta/classes: add image-account-extension class

TBH, I don't remember, so I would have to guess. It might be that some 
packages that where build by isar and installed later might rely on 
those users and groups existence, but why they can not create their own 
stuff in a pre/postinst or via sysusers.d [1], I currently don't 
remember. Maybe because certain GIDs and UIDs need to fixed to specific 
users/groups over any builds, and adding them dynamically in packages 
might change them depending on the order they are installed.

I guess just moving it to the postprocess step, build some projects and 
see if anything breaks is probably necessary at this point, if you don't 
see any reason for it.

Sorry that I am not that helpful.

kind regards,
Claudius,

[1] https://manpages.debian.org/buster/systemd/sysusers.d.5.en.html