From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 15:03:54 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Howto use "Makeusers" In-Reply-To: <56619CCF.6040008@gmx.de> References: <56619CCF.6040008@gmx.de> Message-ID: <20151204150354.03453463@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com