svn commit: r46514 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special
Jason Helfman
jgh at FreeBSD.org
Fri Apr 10 15:54:37 UTC 2015
Author: jgh
Date: Fri Apr 10 15:54:36 2015
New Revision: 46514
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46514
Log:
- uid/gid identification numbers should be the same
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2264
Reviewed by: feld, mat, marino
Approved by: wblock (mentor)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml Fri Apr 10 03:49:43 2015 (r46513)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml Fri Apr 10 15:54:36 2015 (r46514)
@@ -4624,12 +4624,12 @@ run_rc_command "$1"</programlisting>
<sect1 xml:id="users-and-groups">
<title>Adding Users and Groups</title>
- <para>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 <filename>ports/UIDs</filename> (for users) or in
- <filename>ports/GIDs</filename> (for groups). Make sure
- not to use a UID already used by the system or other
- ports.</para>
+ <para>Some ports require a particular user account to be present, usually
+ for daemons that run as that user. For these ports, choose a
+ <emphasis>unique</emphasis> UID from 50 to 999 and register it in
+ <filename>ports/UIDs</filename> (for users) and
+ <filename>ports/GIDs</filename> (for groups). The unique identification
+ should be the same for users and groups.</para>
<para>Please include a patch against these two files when
requiring a new user or group to be created for the
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