Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 14:30:52 +0300 From: Artem Bunichev <tembun@bk.ru> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Adopting users(7) and groups(7) manpages from NetBSD Message-ID: <20251206143052.773a447321122e22959370af@bk.ru>
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Hi! I came across this bug https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264966 and I think that that would be a really great idea to have users(7) and groups(7) pages in FreeBSD. Now I'm interested in creating a patch with these pages, adopted from NetBSD users(7) (https://man.netbsd.org/users.7) and groups(7) (https://man.netbsd.org/groups.7) with appropriate changes for FreeBSD. I must admit that I'm not quite sure that all the information mentioned in NetBSD pages is 100% right for FreeBSD as well. For instance, I couldn't find the following groups in FreeBSD: wsrc, maildrop, postfix, named, _proxy (which in FreeBSD is called proxy), _timedc, _sdpd, _httpd, _mdnsd, _tcpdump, _tss, _gpio, _dhcpcd (called dhcp in FreeBSD), _rtadvd, etc... For most part, I guess these are missed because their programs are not in the FreeBSD base? I decided that it would be a nice strategy to get a list of all groups from /etc/group and document them one-by-one. But I don't know a proper way to tell which software does need/use a particular group/user. Could you please give me some advise on how this should be done? And I also want to ask would it be correct if I assume that information about all basic system groups and users that are present in both NetBSD and FreeBSD (e.g. root, toor, wheel, operator, ...) is accurate for FreeBSD as well? P.S. Maybe you have some suggestions or ideas for new users(7) and groups(7) to be implemented? I also would be happy to get some tips on how to port these pages into FreeBSD better (I have some experience with contributing to FreeBSD manpages, but not that much). Thank you, Artem.home | help
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