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+SUMMARY = "A small image for an example hardening OE."
+
+IMAGE_INSTALL = "packagegroup-core-boot packagegroup-hardening"
+IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " os-release"
+
+IMAGE_FEATURES = ""
+IMAGE_LINGUAS = " "
+
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+
+IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE ?= "8192"
+
+inherit core-image extrausers
+
+ROOT_DEFAULT_PASSWORD ?= "1SimplePw!"
+DEFAULT_ADMIN_ACCOUNT ?= "myadmin"
+DEFAULT_ADMIN_GROUP ?= "wheel"
+DEFAULT_ADMIN_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD ?= "1SimplePw!"
+
+EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISABLE_ROOT', 'True', "usermod -L root;", "usermod -P '${ROOT_DEFAULT_PASSWORD}' root;", d)}"
+
+EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS += "useradd  ${DEFAULT_ADMIN_ACCOUNT};" 
+EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS += "groupadd  ${DEFAULT_ADMIN_GROUP};" 
+EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS += "usermod -P '${DEFAULT_ADMIN_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD}' ${DEFAULT_ADMIN_ACCOUNT};" 
+EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS += "usermod -aG ${DEFAULT_ADMIN_GROUP}  ${DEFAULT_ADMIN_ACCOUNT};"