[Buildroot] Question on users and ssh access

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 28/06/2021 10:55, Eugen.Hristev--- via buildroot wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Maybe you can help me with a small matter related to user accounts in 
> Buildroot ?
> 
> By default the /home directory does not exist, thus when using adduser 
> to create a user, the creation of /home/foo fails ... and this causes 
> login with ssh to the user impossible due to lack of home dir.
> 
> Any recommendation on how to solve this ? It is preferred to set a 
> password for root for ssh access (as root has /root as home) ? or add a 
> post-script to create the /home in the rootfs ?

 You can use BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_TABLE ("Path to permission tables") to point to a
file that instructs buildroot to create the /home directory.

 Alternatively, you can create an overlay (BR2_ROOTFS_OVERLAY) that contains /home.

 Finally, you can specify the home directory location in adduser's arguments,
for example pointing to /tmp/<user>.

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> Thanks !
> Eugen
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