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From: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 07 of 13] manual/user guide/customization: add section on users tables
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:39:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ca1afbd729efe7bb86a.1411069170@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1411069163@localhost>

This patch adds basic documentation on users tables, a topic which was
currently not yet covered in the manual.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>

---
 docs/manual/customize-users-tables.txt |  18 ++++++++++++++++++
 docs/manual/customize.txt              |   3 +++
 docs/manual/makeusers-syntax.txt       |   2 +-
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/manual/customize-users-tables.txt b/docs/manual/customize-users-tables.txt
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/manual/customize-users-tables.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+// -*- mode:doc; -*-
+// vim: set syntax=asciidoc:
+
+[[customize-users]]
+=== Adding custom user accounts
+
+Sometimes it is needed to add specific users in the target system.
+To cover this requirement, Buildroot provides support for so-called
+_users tables_. To use this feature, set config option
++BR2_ROOTFS_USERS_TABLES+ to a space-separated list of users tables,
+regular text files following the xref:makeuser-syntax[makeusers syntax].
+
+As shown in xref:customize-dir-structure[], the recommended location for
+such files is +board/<company>/<boardname>/+.
+
+It should be noted that if the custom users are related to a specific
+application, you should set variable +FOO_USERS+ in the package's +.mk+
+file instead (see xref:generic-package-reference[]).
diff --git a/docs/manual/customize.txt b/docs/manual/customize.txt
--- a/docs/manual/customize.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/customize.txt
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
      +BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_TABLE+)
   ** adding custom devices nodes (using
      +BR2_ROOTFS_STATIC_DEVICE_TABLE+)
+* adding custom user accounts (using +BR2_ROOTFS_USERS_TABLES+)
 * running arbitrary commands after generating the filesystem image
   (using +BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT+)
 * adding project-specific patches to some packages (using
@@ -48,6 +49,8 @@
 
 include::customize-rootfs.txt[]
 
+include::customize-users-tables.txt[]
+
 include::customize-post-image.txt[]
 
 include::customize-packages.txt[]
diff --git a/docs/manual/makeusers-syntax.txt b/docs/manual/makeusers-syntax.txt
--- a/docs/manual/makeusers-syntax.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/makeusers-syntax.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // -*- mode:doc -*- ;
 
 [[makeuser-syntax]]
-== Makeuser syntax documentation
+== Makeusers syntax documentation
 
 The syntax to create users is inspired by the makedev syntax, above, but
 is specific to Buildroot.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-18 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-18 19:39 [Buildroot] [PATCH 00 of 13] manual: improvements in 'Project-specific customization' section Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-09-18 19:39 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 01 of 13] manual: move 'Creating your own board support' from User to Developer guide Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-09-18 19:39 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 02 of 13] manual/developer guide: minor rework of 'adding board support' section Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-09-18 19:39 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 03 of 13] manual/user guide/customization: move section on storing configuration Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-09-18 19:39 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 04 of 13] manual/user guide/customization: rework " Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-09-18 19:39 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 05 of 13] manual/user guide/customization: re-order introduction Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-09-18 19:39 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 06 of 13] manual/user guide/customization: add section on device/permission tables Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-09-18 19:39 ` Thomas De Schampheleire [this message]
2014-09-18 19:39 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 08 of 13] manual/user guide/customization: rename section 'Customizing packages' Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-09-18 19:39 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 09 of 13] manual/user guide/customization: change recommendation for package paths Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-09-18 19:39 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 10 of 13] manual/user guide/customization: add section on project-specific packages Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-09-18 19:39 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 11 of 13] manual/user guide/customization: refer to dir structure from rootfs section Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-09-18 19:39 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 12 of 13] manual/user guide/customization: rework 'step-by-step instructions' Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-09-18 19:39 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 13 of 13] manual/user guide/customization: add section on layered customization Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-09-18 20:03 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 00 of 13] manual: improvements in 'Project-specific customization' section Thomas Petazzoni
2014-09-19  6:40   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-09-21 17:42 ` Thomas Petazzoni

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