The current list of reserved UIDs and GIDs can be found
in ports/UIDs
and
ports/GIDs
.
If your port requires a certain user to be on the installed
system, let the pkg-install
script call
pw
to create it automatically. Look at
net/cvsup-mirror for an example.
Please note that this is strongly discouraged, please register
user/group ID numbers as stated below.
If your port must use the same user/group ID number when it is
installed as a binary package as when it was compiled, then you must
choose a free UID from 50 to 999 and register it either in
ports/UIDs
(for users) or in
ports/GIDs
(for groups). Look at
japanese/Wnn6 for an example.
Make sure you do not use a UID already used by the system or other ports.
Please include a patch against these two files when you require a new user or group to be created for your port.
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