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From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 11:04:27 -0300
Subject: [Buildroot] Howto use "Makeusers"
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On 04/12/15 11:01, Andreas Ehmanns wrote:

> Hello,
> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas

Hi.
Actually several packages use this functionality, see for example 
package/squid/squid.mk (SQUID_USERS), package/redis/redis.mk 
(REDIS_USERS) and such.
Regards.