buildroot/docs/manual/makeusers-syntax.txt, branch 2016.02

scripts/mkusers: allow users with no password value set

2015-06-09T21:13:41+00:00

The following allows a user definition to specify that a created user entry should not have a password value set. Original implementation allowed a user definition to provide a password value of "=" (no quotes) to generate a crypt-encoded empty string value. In some cases, it may be desired to have no value specified for a user's password. By using a value "-" for a password, no value will be set in the shadow value. An example when this can be used is when logging into a terminal. Logging into a session with an encoded empty password will prompt a user to enter a password since it does not know the password is empty. If the password field blank, a login session will not prompt for a password. Signed-off-by: James Knight Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

manual: Add missing vim header

2014-11-22T19:13:31+00:00

Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

docs/manual: document makeusers group-only creation

2014-10-22T20:12:11+00:00

[Thomas: slightly reword according to the help text.] Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

manual/user guide/customization: add section on users tables

2014-09-21T17:41:12+00:00

This patch adds basic documentation on users tables, a topic which was currently not yet covered in the manual. Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni

manual: use one-line titles instead of two-line titles (trivial)

2014-05-02T08:27:59+00:00

Asciidoc supports two syntaxes for section titles: two-line titles (title plus underline consisting of a particular symbol), and one-line titles (title prefixed with a specific number of = signs). The two-line title underlines are: Level 0 (top level): ====================== Level 1: ---------------------- Level 2: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Level 3: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Level 4 (bottom level): ++++++++++++++++++++++ and the one-line title prefixes: = Document Title (level 0) = == Section title (level 1) == === Section title (level 2) === ==== Section title (level 3) ==== ===== Section title (level 4) ===== The buildroot manual is currenly using the two-line titles, but this has multiple disadvantages: - asciidoc also uses some of the underline symbols for other purposes (like preformatted code, example blocks, ...), which makes it difficult to do mass replacements, such as a planned follow-up patch that needs to move all sections one level down. - it is difficult to remember which level a given underline symbol (=-~^+) corresponds to, while counting = signs is easy. This patch changes all two-level titles to one-level titles in the manual. The bulk of the change was done with the following Python script, except for the level 1 titles (-----) as these underlines are also used for literal code blocks. This patch only changes the titles, no other changes. In adding-packages-directory.txt, I did add missing newlines between some titles and their content. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/env python import sys import mmap import re for input in sys.argv[1:]: f = open(input, 'r+') f.flush() s = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0) # Level 0 (top level): ====================== = # Level 1: ---------------------- == # Level 2: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ === # Level 3: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ==== # Level 4 (bottom level): ++++++++++++++++++++++ ===== def replace_title(s, symbol, replacement): pattern = re.compile(r'(.+\n)\%s{2,}\n' % symbol, re.MULTILINE) return pattern.sub(r'%s \1' % replacement, s) new = s new = replace_title(new, '=', '=') new = replace_title(new, '+', '=====') new = replace_title(new, '^', '====') new = replace_title(new, '~', '===') #new = replace_title(new, '-', '==') s.seek(0) s.write(new) s.resize(s.tell()) s.close() f.close() ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard

packages: add ability for packages to create users

2013-04-25T20:56:42+00:00

Packages that install daemons may need those daemons to run as a non-root, or an otherwise non-system (eg. 'daemon'), user. Add infrastructure for packages to create users, by declaring the FOO_USERS variable that contain a makedev-syntax-like description of the user(s) to add. Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Samuel Martin Cc: Cam Hutchison Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard