[Buildroot] [PATCH v3] pseudo-wrapper: fix console issue

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Wed Nov 23 21:34:03 UTC 2016


Thomas, All,

On 2016-11-23 21:57 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:28:43 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> >   - long term, we want to definitely switch to using pseudo:
> >     - it is actively maintained,,
> >     - it has more features than fakeroot,
> >     - some of those features are very interesting for us.
> 
> Could you explain which additional features of pseudo are interesting
> for us?

pseudo can intercept and redirect acceses to /etc/paswd (and group,
shadow, gshadow) to the ones in the target. With that, we could probably
greatly simplify our handling of users.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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