A maintainers question: how to create a user?

[Paul Schmehl]

--On December 15, 2011 7:16:09 PM -0500 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)
>

Look at USERS and GROUPS in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk

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