head && auditdistd

[Alexander Yerenkow]

That's a pretty anti-user design, when such information is pretty obscure
and spread in Updating and wiki.
You can have buildbox, which just builds worlds and install it not to
self-host system, but instead to some image / or to other disk.
And in one day all just stops working, and ask you to run mergemaster or
manually add new user (Exactly was my case when this fresh user appeared) .
Hm, even actually not asking, but simply failing with some message.
If this is pretty obvious, why not insert adding this user into Makefile,
with prompting if user actually wants to add it.
That was my point, not the way of adding user itself.



2013/5/14 Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu>

> You should run 'mergemaster -p' before installworld, as that would add any
> necessary new users to the file.
>
> - Justin
> On May 13, 2013 11:48 PM, "Matthias Apitz" <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Today morning I wanted to make and install a fresh /head to an USB key
> > for further distribution the usual way:
> >
> > ...
> > # make installworld  DESTDIR=/mnt
> > # make installkernel DESTDIR=/mnt KERNCONF=GENERIC INSTALL_NODEBUG=t
> > # make distrib-dirs  DESTDIR=/mnt
> > # make distribution  DESTDIR=/mnt
> >
> > 'installworld' instructed me about the missing user 'auditdistd'; I have
> > read what src/UPDATING says, but can't find any pointer to the man page
> > of auditdistd(8) or in our handbook; with Don Google I got to know that I
> > have to add this with something like
> >
> > # pw useradd -n auditdistd -g audit -c "Auditdistd unprivileged user" -d
> > /var/empty -s /usr/sbin/nologin
> >
> > Can someone bring a bit light into this? Thanks in advance
> >
> >         matthias
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Regards,
Alexander Yerenkow