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From:
Christian Schulte <cs@schulte.it>
Subject:
Handle /usr/ports/infrastructure/db/user.list locally
To:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Sat, 8 Aug 2026 14:28:15 +0200

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Hi porters,

the Porting Guide [1] mentions this:

"20. If the application needs to create a user or a group, choose the
lowest free id from /usr/ports/infrastructure/db/user.list for your port
to use and don't forget to include that file in your commit."

I would like to create a port e.g. at /usr/ports/localhost/localport
which needs to add a user. How to handle the user.list file, if it is
not going to get committed? Whatever user id I would choose, it will
certainly lead to conflicts whenever some other port starts using the
same ids. How to handle this locally without conflicting with others?

Regards,
-- 
Christian

[1] <https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/guide.html>