Commit 2ff8f54e authored by Gustavo Zacarias's avatar Gustavo Zacarias Committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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scripts/mkusers: allow the creation of groups alone 



Let mkusers create groups alone, useful for supplementary permissions in
udev/systemd for example where users can be added to later at runtime.
Use a magic string "-" to signal that user creation should be skipped.

Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Acked-by: default avatar"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
parent 9f13ddf3

support/scripts/mkusers

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@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ main() { 
    # Now, add users whose uid is *not* automatic

    while read username uid group gid passwd home shell groups comment; do

        [ -n "${username}" ] || continue    # Package with no user

        [ "${username}" != "-" ] || continue # Magic string to skip user creation

        [ ${uid} -ge 0     ] || continue    # Automatic uid

        add_one_user "${username}" "${uid}" "${group}" "${gid}" "${passwd}" \

                     "${home}" "${shell}" "${groups}" "${comment}"
@@ -405,6 +406,7 @@ main() { 
    # Finally, add users whose uid *is* automatic

    while read username uid group gid passwd home shell groups comment; do

        [ -n "${username}" ] || continue    # Package with no user

        [ "${username}" != "-" ] || continue # Magic string to skip user creation

        [ ${uid} -eq -1    ] || continue    # Non-automatic uid

        add_one_user "${username}" "${uid}" "${group}" "${gid}" "${passwd}" \

                     "${home}" "${shell}" "${groups}" "${comment}"