USER.ECLASS

Section: portage (5)
Updated: Jan 2019
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NAME

user.eclass - user management in ebuilds  

DESCRIPTION

The user eclass contains a suite of functions that allow ebuilds to quickly make sure users in the installed system are sane.  

FUNCTIONS

egetent <database> <key>

Small wrapper for getent (Linux), nidump (< Mac OS X 10.5), dscl (Mac OS X 10.5), and pw (FreeBSD) used in enewuser()/enewgroup().

Supported databases: group passwd

enewuser <user> [uid] [shell] [homedir] [groups]

Same as enewgroup, you are not required to understand how to properly add a user to the system. The only required parameter is the username. Default uid is (pass -1 for this) next available, default shell is /bin/false, default homedir is /dev/null, and there are no default groups.

enewgroup <group> [gid]

This function does not require you to understand how to properly add a group to the system. Just give it a group name to add and enewgroup will do the rest. You may specify the gid for the group or allow the group to allocate the next available one.

egethome <user>

Gets the home directory for the specified user.

egetshell <user>

Gets the shell for the specified user.

esethome <user> <homedir>

Update the home directory in a platform-agnostic way. Required parameters is the username and the new home directory. Specify -1 if you want to set home to the enewuser default of /dev/null. If the new home directory does not exist, it is created. Any previously existing home directory is NOT moved.

 

MAINTAINERS

base-system@gentoo.org (Linux)

 

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs via https://bugs.gentoo.org/  

FILES

user.eclass  

SEE ALSO

ebuild(5)

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/eclass/user.eclass

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Index

NAME

DESCRIPTION

FUNCTIONS

MAINTAINERS

REPORTING BUGS

FILES

SEE ALSO

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