[Buildroot] Howto use "Makeusers"

[Andreas Ehmanns <universeii@gmx.de>]

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 <pkg>_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