[OE-core] RFC: Recipe based User & Group addition, modification and deletion

[Yury Bushmelev]

2011/5/3 Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>:
> RFC: Recipe based User & Group addition, modification and deletion

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> Any comments on the above?

As a former FreeBSD admin I'll show how this is done in 'ports'
collection (JFYI):

# USERS			- List of users to create at install time. Each login must
# 				  have a corresponding entry in ${UID_FILES}.
# GROUPS		- List of groups to create at install time. Each group must
# 				  have a corresponding entry in ${GID_FILES}.

Sample usage from databases/mysql51-server/Makefile:
USERS=          mysql
GROUPS=         mysql

UID_FILES and GID_FILES are pointing to UIDs and GIDs files in ports dir.

Sample record from UIDs file:
mysql:*:88:88::0:0:MySQL Daemon:/var/db/mysql:/usr/sbin/nologin

Sample record from GIDs file:
mysql:*:88:

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Yury Bushmelev