A maintainers question: how to create a user?

[Chris Rees]

On 16 December 2011 17:56, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 16 December 2011 15:27, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:
>> --On December 15, 2011 7:16:09 PM -0500 Aryeh Friedman
>> <aryeh.friedman at 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)
>>>
>>
>> Look at USERS and GROUPS in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
>>
>
>
> It is possible to have aegis automatically added to wheel, but
> personally I'd prefer that a message were printed to suggest that
> rather than automate it....  Others may disagree!

How are you getting on with this?

Chris