Chapter 26. Makeusers syntax documentation

The syntax to create users is inspired by the makedev syntax, above, but is specific to Buildroot.

The syntax for adding a user is a space-separated list of fields, one user per line; the fields are:

username

uid

group

gid

password

home

shell

groups

comment

Where:

There are a few restrictions on the content of each field:

If home is not -, then the home directory, and all files below, will belong to the user and its main group.

Examples:

foo -1 bar -1 !=blabla /home/foo /bin/sh alpha,bravo Foo user

This will create this user:

test 8000 wheel -1 = - /bin/sh - Test user

This will create this user: