dscl

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Sep 18, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
>> On Sep 17, 2009, at 9:44 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
>>> Hello, I am working on trying to make a change to a port that does  
>>> not have user and group adding abilities, but it probably should.   
>>> At this point, I need to confirm this by adding a user and group  
>>> by hand, using dscl in Mac OS X 10.5
>>
>> The port should use the adduser/addgroup commands (see 'man  
>> portfile')
>
> Yes, thanks, eventually I will use those commands, though for the  
> time being, I need to test that it works in this way, to be sure I  
> am even on the right track.

I don't see how that's the case. Either you need a user/group added  
(in which case you should use adduser/addgroup) or you don't.

If you're just checking to see if you need a user/group added, then it  
seems like it would be easier to just use adduser/addgroup and then  
test.

>>> I think what I would really like to do is also create a user and  
>>> group more like www and mysql, where they have both the _foo and  
>>> foo version, but I can not figure this out.
>>
>> why? I don't think you want/need to have the user be 'special' in  
>> this way.
>
> Any idea what the significance of the _user and _group is?

I would guess that it's just to mark that they're system-provided non- 
login users.

Also, you don't want to use low number uid/gids (which adduser/ 
addgroup will not use) since they're reserved by Apple.
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