From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ehmanns Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 15:17:55 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Howto use "Makeusers" In-Reply-To: <20151204150354.03453463@free-electrons.com> References: <56619CCF.6040008@gmx.de> <20151204150354.03453463@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <5661A093.8040107@gmx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Am 04.12.2015 um 15:03 schrieb Thomas Petazzoni: > Andreas, > > On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 15:01:51 +0100, Andreas Ehmanns wrote: > >> to make an openldap server available for buildroot I created an init >> script which starts the ldap server as non-privileged user (and group). >> Since the ldap user and group is not existing on the target I searched >> for a way to let the openldap package add the user and group to the >> target filesystem. The buildroot documentation describes in chapter 23 >> the syntax of "makeusers". So far so good, but I have no idea to which >> file I should add the corresponding makeusers command. >> >> I grepped the buildroot tree for an example but unfortunately did not >> found a package using this command. >> >> Does anybody have an example how to do this. > Directly in your .mk file, using a variable named _USERS. See > package/dbus/dbus.mk for an example: > > define DBUS_USERS > dbus -1 dbus -1 * /var/run/dbus - dbus DBus messagebus user > endef > > This is also documented in the manual, which says: > > LIBFOO_USERS lists the users to create for this package, if it > installs a program you want to run as a specific user (e.g. as a > daemon, or as a cron-job). The syntax is similar in spirit to the > makedevs one, and is described in the Chapter 23, Makeusers syntax > documentation. This variable is optional. > > Hope this helps, > > Thomas Dear Thomas, dear Gustavo, thanks for your information and your hints. Seems that I did not grep for the right key word. Regards, Andreas