Some ports require a certain user to be on the installed
system. Choose a free UID from 50 to 999 and register it
either in ports/UIDs
(for users) or in
ports/GIDs
(for groups). Make sure you
do not use a UID already used by the system or other
ports.
Please include a patch against these two files when you require a new user or group to be created for your port.
Then you can use USERS
and
GROUPS
variables in your
Makefile
, and the user will be
automatically created when installing the port.
The current list of reserved UIDs and GIDs can be found
in ports/UIDs
and
ports/GIDs
.
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