Howto use "Makeusers"

to make an openldap server available for buildroot I created an init script which starts the ldap server as non-privileged user (and group). Since the ldap user and group is not existing on the target I searched for a way to let the openldap package add the user and group to the target filesystem. The buildroot documentation describes in chapter 23 the syntax of "makeusers". So far so good, but I have no idea to which file I should add the corresponding makeusers command.

I grepped the buildroot tree for an example but unfortunately did not found a package using this command.

Does anybody have an example how to do this.

Hello,
to make an openldap server available for buildroot I created an init script which starts the ldap server as non-privileged user (and group). Since the ldap user and group is not existing on the target I searched for a way to let the openldap package add the user and group to the target filesystem. The buildroot documentation describes in chapter 23 the syntax of "makeusers". So far so good, but I have no idea to which file I should add the corresponding makeusers command.

I grepped the buildroot tree for an example but unfortunately did not found a package using this command.

Does anybody have an example how to do this.

Regards,
Andreas

Andreas,

Quoted 8 lines · Andreas Ehmanns

to make an openldap server available for buildroot I created an init script which starts the ldap server as non-privileged user (and group). Since the ldap user and group is not existing on the target I searched for a way to let the openldap package add the user and group to the target filesystem. The buildroot documentation describes in chapter 23 the syntax of "makeusers". So far so good, but I have no idea to which file I should add the corresponding makeusers command.

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I grepped the buildroot tree for an example but unfortunately did not found a package using this command.

Does anybody have an example how to do this.

Directly in your .mk file, using a variable named <pkg>_USERS. See package/dbus/dbus.mk for an example:

define DBUS_USERS
dbus -1 dbus -1 * /var/run/dbus - dbus DBus messagebus user
endef

This is also documented in the manual, which says:

LIBFOO_USERS lists the users to create for this package, if it installs a program you want to run as a specific user (e.g. as a daemon, or as a cron-job). The syntax is similar in spirit to the makedevs one, and is described in the Chapter 23, Makeusers syntax documentation. This variable is optional.

Hope this helps,

Thomas