The ! for the password in /etc/shadow indicates that the account is 
disabled:

sakura:!:18031:0:99999:7:::


Either there is something wrong with the password generation or it gets 
disabled by something else. Maybe it's worth trying with a plain image 
without Boot2Qt or anything else.


:rjs



On 5/15/19 11:46 AM, Greg Wilson-Lindberg wrote:
>
> Hi Rudolf,
>
> 1st, yes I inherit extrausers. Attached are the passwd & shadow files.
>
>
> It shouldn't make any difference, but I'm building this for an RPi3 
> using the Qt Boot2Qt version of the Yocto environment, distro 2.5.3.
>
>
> Greg
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Rudolf J Streif <rudolf.streif@ibeeto.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 15, 2019 11:26 AM
> *To:* Greg Wilson-Lindberg; Yocto list discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [yocto] problem adding a user
>
> Hi Greg,
>
>
> > I've also tried both the back-quote and the single-quote, no difference.
>
>
> Help me to understand this. the back-quotes are the right ones. If you 
> use the single ones your password in the /etc/shadow ends up being 
> 'openssl passwd test' (without the quotes), unless the build fails 
> because of a parsing error (I have not tried it). Silly question, you 
> did inherit extrausers class?
>
>
> Can you post your /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
>
>
> I am surprised that this does not work with your setup. I have been 
> doing this a gazillion times always with success.
>
>
> :rjs
>
>
>
>
> On 5/15/19 11:03 AM, Greg Wilson-Lindberg wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rudolf,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply, and the information on how openssl works.
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to create a user with the same group name so the code that 
>> I'm using reduces to:
>>
>> EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS = "\
>>      useradd -p `openssl passwd test` sakura; \
>>      usermod -a -G sudo ${SAKURA_USER}; \
>>      "
>> I also, as you can see, removed the macros to eliminate as much 
>> confusion as possible.
>>
>>
>> I still can't login in using the password 'test'.
>>
>>
>> I've also tried both the back-quote and the single-quote, no difference.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Rudolf J Streif <rudolf.streif@ibeeto.com>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 15, 2019 10:07:47 AM
>> *To:* Greg Wilson-Lindberg; Yocto list discussion
>> *Subject:* Re: [yocto] problem adding a user
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Well, I suppose I wrote the book you are referring to...
>>
>>
>> Using
>>
>> useradd -p PASSWORD USER
>>
>> takes the password hash for PASSWORD hence the use of openssl in:
>>
>> useadd -p `openssl passwd PASSWORD` USER
>>
>> openssl password creates the password hash using the original crypt hash
>> algorithm if no other options are specified. e.g.
>>
>> $ openssl passwd hello
>> 6hEsTksgRkeiI
>>
>> With this the first two characters of the output is the salt and the
>> rest is the password hash. If you want openssl to create the same result
>> again:
>>
>> $ openssl passwd -salt "6h" hello
>> 6hEsTksgRkeiI
>>
>> You can use newer algorithms like MD5 based BSD password algorithm 1:
>>
>> $ openssl passwd -1 hello
>> $1$4Mu8Fcs.$eIKgPP7RCYrb3lFZjhADA1
>>
>> $1 : password algorithm 1
>> $4Mu8Fcs. : salt
>> $eIKgPP7RCYrb3lFZjhADA1 : password hash
>>
>>
>> If you log into the system you have to use the clear password. The
>> system reads the salt, creates the password hash and compares the 
>> results.
>>
>>
>> :rjs
>>
>>
>> On 5/14/19 5:34 PM, Greg Wilson-Lindberg wrote:
>> > I'm trying to use the example in "Embedded Linux Systems with the 
>> Yocto Project" to add a user to my Yocto build. In the book the 
>> sample code:
>> >
>> >     useradd -p `openssl passwd ${DEV_PASSWORD}` developer; \
>> >
>> > uses openssl to generate the encrypted password string to pass to 
>> useradd. I have never been able to get this to work. When I run the 
>> openssl
>> > command on the cmd line I get a different value every time, this 
>> seems wrong, How can the password code compare against it if every encode
>> > produces a different value?
>> >
>> > I am getting the user added to the system, the home directory shows 
>> up and the user is in the passwd and group files. I just can't login 
>> to the
>> > account.
>> >
>> > I've obviously got something confused, any help would be appreciated.
>> >
>> > Greg Wilson-Lindberg
>> >
>>
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