On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 1:26 PM Patrick Doyle via
Lists.Yoctoproject.Org <wpdster=gmail.com@...>
wrote:

I want the daemon to run as a non-root user, so I have "inherit
extrausers" in my recipe.

Suppose I only wanted to create that extra user iff the package
containing the daemon was included in the image. Is this possible?
How?

Apparently, the answer is that I should use "inherit adduser" instead
of "inherit extrausers". See
https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/2.7/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#ref-classes-useradd.

--wpd