[gentoo-embedded] Re: emerge --root : users not created

[P. Levine]

2009/12/14  Sven Rebhan <odinshorse@...>
> The correct way to solve this would be to add an option to
> useradd, allowing to specify a passwd file other than /etc/passwd.
> Afterwards patch the corresponding eclass to use this option. Patches
> are welcome. ;-)
>
>> Quite annoying - workarounds would be highly appreciated!

I submitted a fix for this at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302570

Shadow doesn't seem to allow a purely static build.
Busybox is purely self-contained, so I used that.
It works on my end but it could use some testing.

Any feedback is appreciated.