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From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
Subject: Re: Is pkg-install the best solution?
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 22:54:23 -0800
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On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 07:30:47 +0100 olli hauer <ohauer@gmx.de> wrote

> On 2015-02-09 03:05, Chris H wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >  I'm working with a port that [conditionally] requires
> > creating/setting a UID && GID. Following is my approach
> > for a pkg-install. But would simply setting them as
> > USERS=
> > GROUPS=
> > in Makefile be a better approach?
> > pkg-install:
> > #!/bin/sh
> > 
> > PATH=/bin:/usr/sbin
> > 
> > if [ -z "${WRAP_USER}" ]; then
> >     WRAP_USER=myapp
> > fi
> > 
> > case $2 in
> >     PRE-INSTALL)
> >     UID=181
> >     GID=${UID}
> >     if [ ! -d "${MYAPP_DIR}" ]; then
> >         mkdir -p ${MYAPP_DIR}
> >     fi
> >     if pw user show "${WRAP_USER}" 2>/dev/null; then
> >         echo "You already have a user \"${WRAP_USER}\", so I will use it."
> >         if pw usermod ${WRAP_USER} -d ${MYAPP_DIR}
> >         then
> >             echo "Changed home directory of \"${WRAP_USER}\" to
> >             \"${MYAPP_DIR}\"" >         else
> >             "${MYAPP_DIR}\" failed..."
> <snip> ...
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> go with USERS,GROUPS in Makefile and if the user/group does not already exist
> in ports/UIDs, ports/GIDs request one together with the new port. 
>
> Using pkg-install to create users/groups is deprecated.
Perfect. Good to know.
Thank you, olli!
Greatly appreciated. :)

--Chris
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> olli