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+SUMMARY = "Tools to change and administer password and group data"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org"
+BUGTRACKER = "https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?group_id=30580"
+SECTION = "base/utils"
+LICENSE = "BSD | Artistic-1.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ed80ff1c2b40843cf5768e5229cf16e5 \
+                    file://src/passwd.c;beginline=8;endline=30;md5=d83888ea14ae61951982d77125947661"
+
+DEPENDS = "shadow-native"
+DEPENDS_class-native = ""
+DEPENDS_class-nativesdk = ""
+
+SRC_URI = "http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/releases/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.xz \
+           file://shadow-4.1.3-dots-in-usernames.patch \
+           file://usermod-fix-compilation-failure-with-subids-disabled.patch \
+           file://fix-installation-failure-with-subids-disabled.patch \
+           file://0001-Do-not-read-login.defs-before-doing-chroot.patch \
+           file://check_size_of_uid_t_and_gid_t_using_AC_CHECK_SIZEOF.patch \
+           ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'pam', '${PAM_SRC_URI}', '', d)} \
+           "
+
+SRC_URI_append_class-target = " \
+           file://login_defs_pam.sed \
+           file://shadow-update-pam-conf.patch \
+           "
+
+SRC_URI_append_class-native = " \
+           file://disable-syslog.patch \
+           file://allow-for-setting-password-in-clear-text.patch \
+           file://commonio.c-fix-unexpected-open-failure-in-chroot-env.patch \
+           file://0001-useradd.c-create-parent-directories-when-necessary.patch \
+           "
+SRC_URI_append_class-nativesdk = " \
+           file://disable-syslog.patch \
+           "
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "2bfafe7d4962682d31b5eba65dba4fc8"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "3b0893d1476766868cd88920f4f1231c4795652aa407569faff802bcda0f3d41"
+
+# Additional Policy files for PAM
+PAM_SRC_URI = "file://pam.d/chfn \
+               file://pam.d/chpasswd \
+               file://pam.d/chsh \
+               file://pam.d/login \
+               file://pam.d/newusers \
+               file://pam.d/passwd \
+               file://pam.d/su"
+
+inherit autotools gettext
+
+EXTRA_OECONF += "--without-audit \
+                 --without-libcrack \
+                 --without-selinux \
+                 --with-group-name-max-length=24 \
+                 --enable-subordinate-ids=yes \
+                 ${NSCDOPT}"
+
+NSCDOPT = ""
+NSCDOPT_class-native = "--without-nscd"
+NSCDOPT_class-nativesdk = "--without-nscd"
+NSCDOPT_libc-uclibc = " --without-nscd"
+NSCDOPT_libc-glibc = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'libc-spawn', '--with-nscd', '--without-nscd', d)}"
+          
+PAM_PLUGINS = "libpam-runtime \
+               pam-plugin-faildelay \
+               pam-plugin-securetty \
+               pam-plugin-nologin \
+               pam-plugin-env \
+               pam-plugin-group \
+               pam-plugin-limits \
+               pam-plugin-lastlog \
+               pam-plugin-motd \
+               pam-plugin-mail \
+               pam-plugin-shells \
+               pam-plugin-rootok"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'pam', '', d)}"
+PACKAGECONFIG_class-native = ""
+PACKAGECONFIG_class-nativesdk = ""
+PACKAGECONFIG[pam] = "--with-libpam,--without-libpam,libpam,${PAM_PLUGINS}"
+PACKAGECONFIG[attr] = "--with-attr,--without-attr,attr"
+PACKAGECONFIG[acl] = "--with-acl,--without-acl,acl"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "shadow-securetty \
+                  base-passwd \
+                  util-linux-sulogin"
+RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = ""
+RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-nativesdk = ""
+
+do_install() {
+	oe_runmake DESTDIR="${D}" sbindir="${base_sbindir}" usbindir="${sbindir}" install
+
+	# Info dir listing isn't interesting at this point so remove it if it exists.
+	if [ -e "${D}${infodir}/dir" ]; then
+		rm -f ${D}${infodir}/dir
+	fi
+
+	# Enable CREATE_HOME by default.
+	sed -i 's/#CREATE_HOME/CREATE_HOME/g' ${D}${sysconfdir}/login.defs
+
+	# As we are on an embedded system, ensure the users mailbox is in
+	# ~/ not /var/spool/mail by default, as who knows where or how big
+	# /var is. The system MDA will set this later anyway.
+	sed -i 's/MAIL_DIR/#MAIL_DIR/g' ${D}${sysconfdir}/login.defs
+	sed -i 's/#MAIL_FILE/MAIL_FILE/g' ${D}${sysconfdir}/login.defs
+
+	# Disable checking emails.
+	sed -i 's/MAIL_CHECK_ENAB/#MAIL_CHECK_ENAB/g' ${D}${sysconfdir}/login.defs
+
+	# Comment out SU_NAME to work correctly with busybox
+	# See Bug#5359 and Bug#7173
+	sed -i 's:^SU_NAME:#SU_NAME:g' ${D}${sysconfdir}/login.defs
+
+	# Use proper encryption for passwords
+	sed -i 's/^#ENCRYPT_METHOD.*$/ENCRYPT_METHOD SHA512/' ${D}${sysconfdir}/login.defs
+
+	# Now we don't have a mail system. Disable mail creation for now.
+	sed -i 's:/bin/bash:/bin/sh:g' ${D}${sysconfdir}/default/useradd
+	sed -i '/^CREATE_MAIL_SPOOL/ s:^:#:' ${D}${sysconfdir}/default/useradd
+
+	# Use users group by default
+	sed -i 's,^GROUP=1000,GROUP=100,g' ${D}${sysconfdir}/default/useradd
+}
+
+do_install_append() {
+	# Ensure that the image has as a /var/spool/mail dir so shadow can
+	# put mailboxes there if the user reconfigures shadow to its
+	# defaults (see sed below).
+	install -d ${D}${localstatedir}/spool/mail
+
+	if [ -e ${WORKDIR}/pam.d ]; then
+		install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/pam.d/
+		install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/pam.d/* ${D}${sysconfdir}/pam.d/
+		# Remove defaults that are not used when supporting PAM.
+		sed -i -f ${WORKDIR}/login_defs_pam.sed ${D}${sysconfdir}/login.defs
+	fi
+
+	install -d ${D}${sbindir} ${D}${base_sbindir} ${D}${base_bindir} 
+
+	# Move binaries to the locations we want
+	rm ${D}${sbindir}/vigr
+	ln -sf vipw.${BPN} ${D}${base_sbindir}/vigr
+	if [ "${sbindir}" != "${base_sbindir}" ]; then
+		mv ${D}${sbindir}/vipw ${D}${base_sbindir}/vipw
+	fi
+	if [ "${bindir}" != "${base_bindir}" ]; then
+		mv ${D}${bindir}/login ${D}${base_bindir}/login
+		mv ${D}${bindir}/su ${D}${base_bindir}/su
+	fi
+
+	# Handle link properly after rename, otherwise missing files would
+	# lead rpm failed dependencies.
+	ln -sf newgrp.${BPN} ${D}${bindir}/sg
+}
+
+PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-base"
+FILES_${PN}-base = "\
+    ${base_bindir}/login.shadow \
+    ${base_bindir}/su.shadow \
+    ${bindir}/sg \
+    ${bindir}/newgrp.shadow \
+    ${bindir}/groups.shadow \
+    ${sysconfdir}/pam.d/login \
+    ${sysconfdir}/pam.d/su \
+    ${sysconfdir}/login.defs \
+"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PN}-base"
+
+inherit update-alternatives
+
+ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "200"
+
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "passwd chfn chsh chpasswd vipw vigr"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[chpasswd] = "${sbindir}/chpasswd"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[vipw] = "${base_sbindir}/vipw"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[vigr] = "${base_sbindir}/vigr"
+
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-base = "newgrp groups login su"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[login] = "${base_bindir}/login"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[su] = "${base_bindir}/su"
+
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN}-doc = "passwd.5 getspnam.3 groups.1"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[passwd.5] = "${mandir}/man5/passwd.5"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[getspnam.3] = "${mandir}/man3/getspnam.3"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[groups.1] = "${mandir}/man1/groups.1"
+
+pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
+	if [ "x$D" != "x" ]; then
+	  rootarg="--root $D"
+	else
+	  rootarg=""
+	fi
+
+	pwconv $rootarg || exit 1
+	grpconv $rootarg || exit 1
+}