adding new user for a port.

[Nikola Lecic]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:16:31 +0300
Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev at moneybookers.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to make a small port, but want to ask what is the right 
> procedure,
> if my port requires a certain user to be on the installed system?
> 
> Do I have to use pkg-install/pkg-deinstall for this?

Stefan,

Porter's Handbook, section "UIDs and GIDs":

  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-uid-and-gids.html

  [...]
  If your port requires a certain user to be on the installed system,
  let the pkg-install script call pw to create it automatically. Look at
  net/cvsup-mirror for an example. Please note that this is strongly
  discouraged, please register user/group ID numbers as stated below.
  [..]

Read the rest of this section. There is a lot of other ports that can
serve as examples, such as sysutils/hal (see files/pkg-install.in etc.
about the user haldaemon = "HAL Daemon User") or print/cups-base (see
Makefile and commands in pkg-plist about the user cups = "CUPS Owner").

Nikola Lečić