1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/useradd_base.bbclass b/meta/classes/useradd_base.bbclass
index 7f5b9b7219..5e1c699118 100644
--- a/meta/classes/useradd_base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/useradd_base.bbclass
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+#
+# Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+
 # This bbclass provides basic functionality for user/group settings.
 # This bbclass is intended to be inherited by useradd.bbclass and
 # extrausers.bbclass.
@@ -154,7 +160,7 @@ perform_passwd_expire () {
         local username=`echo "$opts" | awk '{ print $NF }'`
         local user_exists="`grep "^$username:" $rootdir/etc/passwd || true`"
         if test "x$user_exists" != "x"; then
-                eval flock -x $rootdir${sysconfdir} -c \"$PSEUDO sed -i \''s/^\('$username':[^:]*\):[^:]*:/\1:0:/'\' $rootdir/etc/shadow \" || true
+                eval flock -x $rootdir${sysconfdir} -c \"$PSEUDO sed --follow-symlinks -i \''s/^\('$username':[^:]*\):[^:]*:/\1:0:/'\' $rootdir/etc/shadow \" || true
                 local passwd_lastchanged="`grep "^$username:" $rootdir/etc/shadow | cut -d: -f3`"
                 if test "x$passwd_lastchanged" != "x0"; then
                         bbfatal "${PN}: passwd --expire operation did not succeed."