I may be overthinking/overtweaking this but...

I have a recipe with that creates a number of executables, one of
which is a daemon.

I have split that daemon off into its own separate package using the
PACKAGES =+ "${PN]-blah-blah-blah" construct.

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?

--wpd

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