Some ports require a particular user account to be present,
usually for daemons that run as that user. For these ports,
choose a unique UID from 50 to 999 and
register it in ports/UIDs
(for users) and
ports/GIDs
(for groups). The unique
identification should be the same for users and groups.
Please include a patch against these two files when requiring a new user or group to be created for the port.
Then use USERS
and
GROUPS
in
Makefile
, and the user will be
automatically created when installing the port.
USERS= pulse GROUPS= pulse pulse-access pulse-rt
The current list of reserved UIDs and GIDs can be found
in ports/UIDs
and
ports/GIDs
.
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