On Sep 18, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
On Sep 17, 2009, at 9:44 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
Hello, I am working on trying to make a change to a port that does
not have user and group adding abilities, but it probably should.
At this point, I need to confirm this by adding a user and group
by hand, using dscl in Mac OS X 10.5
The port should use the adduser/addgroup commands (see 'man
portfile')
Yes, thanks, eventually I will use those commands, though for the
time being, I need to test that it works in this way, to be sure I
am even on the right track.
I don't see how that's the case. Either you need a user/group added
(in which case you should use adduser/addgroup) or you don't.
If you're just checking to see if you need a user/group added, then it
seems like it would be easier to just use adduser/addgroup and then
test.
I think what I would really like to do is also create a user and
group more like www and mysql, where they have both the _foo and
foo version, but I can not figure this out.
why? I don't think you want/need to have the user be 'special' in
this way.
Any idea what the significance of the _user and _group is?
I would guess that it's just to mark that they're system-provided non-
login users.
Also, you don't want to use low number uid/gids (which adduser/
addgroup will not use) since they're reserved by Apple.
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Daniel J. Luke
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