Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:19:54 -0500 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: A maintainers question: how to create a user? Message-ID: <CAGBxaXncQbY7gbFR%2BSyipp13E2ZicQ-oeEEGacAz7%2BZEOQ1vtg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXkpgAH3vdc%2BgmVKCvvouap78rgVm%2B45KUoRagTFsMc9yQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGBxaXkpgAH3vdc%2BgmVKCvvouap78rgVm%2B45KUoRagTFsMc9yQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>wrote:
> See subject for the main question... the details: I am the maintainer of
> devel/aegis and the final installation step typically (linux RPM's for
> example) is to create a user to hold the baselines (in svn/cvs/csup speak
> the project's repo) of the varioous projects managed by aegis... customerly
> this is MUST be a non-logginable (you MUST [requirements document meaning
> of upper case MUST/SHOULD/MAY {NOT}) but allow for su from either root or
> via sudo a member of "wheel")... it is a standard account in all other
> respects for example I typically set it to tcsh but the port might want to
> make that an make time option... what is the best way of setting this all
> up (both the no options and the options based versions)
>
for example:
# grep aegis /etc/passwd
aegis:*:1002:1002:Aegis Baselines:/home/aegis:/bin/tcsh
# grep aegis /etc/group
wheel:*:0:root,aryeh,aegis
aegis:*:1002:
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