ref-manual: Update how to set a useradd password

Partial fix for [YOCTO 14605]

(From yocto-docs rev: 3f3e5574ac9801ad92940168b61b532e0bd53a80)

Signed-off-by: Daiane Angolini <daiane.angolini@foundries.io>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/classes.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/classes.rst
index 79af45ada5..9b1ead66b3 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/classes.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/classes.rst
@@ -590,19 +590,25 @@ Here is an example that uses this class in an image recipe::
        "
 
 Here is an example that adds two users named "tester-jim" and "tester-sue" and assigns
-passwords::
+passwords. First on host, create the password hash::
+
+   mkpasswd -m sha256crypt tester01
+
+The resulting hash is set to a variable and used in ``useradd`` command parameters.
+Remember to escape the character ``$``::
 
    inherit extrausers
+   PASSWD = "\$X\$ABC123\$A-Long-Hash"
    EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS = "\
-       useradd -P tester01 tester-jim; \
-       useradd -P tester01 tester-sue; \
+       useradd -p '${PASSWD}' tester-jim; \
+       useradd -p '${PASSWD}' tester-sue; \
        "
 
-Finally, here is an example that sets the root password to "1876*18"::
+Finally, here is an example that sets the root password::
 
    inherit extrausers
    EXTRA_USERS_PARAMS = "\
-       usermod -P 1876*18 root; \
+       usermod -p '${PASSWD}' root; \
        "
 
 .. _ref-classes-features_check: