A maintainers question: how to create a user?

[Aryeh Friedman]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>wrote:

> See subject for the main question... the details: I am the maintainer of
> devel/aegis and the final installation step typically (linux RPM's for
> example) is to create a user to hold the baselines (in svn/cvs/csup speak
> the project's repo) of the varioous projects managed by aegis... customerly
> this is MUST be a non-logginable (you MUST [requirements document meaning
> of upper case MUST/SHOULD/MAY {NOT}) but allow for su from either root or
> via sudo a member of "wheel")... it is a standard account in all other
> respects for example I typically set it to tcsh but the port might want to
> make that an make time option... what is the best way of setting this all
> up (both the no options and the options based versions)
>

for example:

# grep aegis /etc/passwd
aegis:*:1002:1002:Aegis Baselines:/home/aegis:/bin/tcsh
# grep aegis /etc/group
wheel:*:0:root,aryeh,aegis
aegis:*:1002: