From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NejCB-0000o3-Gb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:03:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C449E0F6B for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms173007pub.verizon.net (vms173007pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.7]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F943E0DFB for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:48:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.7] ([unknown] [173.63.22.246]) by vms173007.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0KXK009CL843II50@vms173007.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:48:04 -0600 (CST) Message-id: <4B70F713.5060409@verizon.net> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:48:03 -0500 From: "P. Levine" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100206 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-embedded] Re: emerge --root : users not created X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 52b50085-5146-40b8-9d89-0215822bb537 X-Archives-Hash: ddd0651c513aac1f09c5d0b99df5c90e 2009/12/14 Sven Rebhan > The correct way to solve this would be to add an option to > useradd, allowing to specify a passwd file other than /etc/passwd. > Afterwards patch the corresponding eclass to use this option. Patches > are welcome. ;-) > >> Quite annoying - workarounds would be highly appreciated! I submitted a fix for this at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302570 Shadow doesn't seem to allow a purely static build. Busybox is purely self-contained, so I used that. It works on my end but it could use some testing. Any feedback is appreciated.