Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding users/groups in packages

[George Shapovalov]

Ok, since there seems to be no answer I'll try (disclaimer: I am not sure of 
the gentoo security group policy on usernames used).

There is no special infrastructure in the portage aimed at adding/removing new 
users. However full power of bash is available to you.
You can do it in such a way for example:
1. Check for existance of an appropriate user (grep -e username /etc/passwd)
2. run appropriate adduser command
3. after make install finishes you probably want to:
cd &{D}
chown -R username.group *
chmod -R ??? * (or what seems appropriate)
4. BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL AND TRIPLE CHECK EVERYTHING!
as you are doing potentially dangerous things in you ebuild. Good idea is to 
solicit some testing on the side..

Whether it should be done in ebuild in this specific case? I am afraid that 
you are the best person to know (for example if you want to force some 
specific username different from what package installer wants to do), unless 
this is part of development for larger [sub]system. In the latter case try 
contacting developers involved in that [sub]project, they should have some 
idea about accepted usernames.

George


On Friday 19 April 2002 15:33, Joachim Blaabjerg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While packaging tcb for secure Gentoo, I noticed it needed a group named
> chkpwd. How should I handle this in the ebuild? I assume tcb is going to be
> standard in secure Gentoo, so should this be handled in the ebuild at all?
>
> Regards,