Users

User accounts are added or modified with user elements in the users section:

<image schemaversion="8.5" name="kiwi-test-image-some">
    <users>
        <user
            password="$1$wYJUgpM5$RXMMeASDc035eX.NbYWFl0"
            home="/root" name="root" groups="root"
        />
        <user
            password="this_is_soo_insecure" pwdformat="plain"
            home="/home/me" name="me" groups="users"
        />
    </users>
</image>

Attribute	Description
`name`	Required. The user name.
`password`	Required. The password, encrypted or, with `pwdformat="plain"`, in clear text.
`pwdformat`	The format of the password: `encrypted` (default) or `plain`.
`home`	The home directory.
`groups`	A comma-separated list of groups. The first group is the primary group, the others are supplementary groups. Without groups, the default primary group of the system is used.
`id`	The numeric user ID.
`realname`	The full name of the user.
`shell`	The login shell.

Tip

Anyone with access to the image description can read a plain password. Use an encrypted password instead, created for example with:

$ openssl passwd -1 -salt 'xyz' YOUR_PASSWORD