On Apr 23, 2009, at 07:18, Scott Haneda wrote: > can someone break out for me what exactly it is that adduser and > addgroup are doing in ports so I can manually perform those steps. It looks like it uses dscl to create the user. Here is the code: http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/src/port1.0/portutil.tcl? rev=49854#L2109