manual/user guide/customization: add section on users tables

This patch adds basic documentation on users tables, a topic which was
currently not yet covered in the manual.

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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Thomas De Schampheleire 2014-09-18 21:39:30 +02:00 committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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// -*- mode:doc; -*-
// vim: set syntax=asciidoc:
[[customize-users]]
=== Adding custom user accounts
Sometimes it is needed to add specific users in the target system.
To cover this requirement, Buildroot provides support for so-called
_users tables_. To use this feature, set config option
+BR2_ROOTFS_USERS_TABLES+ to a space-separated list of users tables,
regular text files following the xref:makeuser-syntax[makeusers syntax].
As shown in xref:customize-dir-structure[], the recommended location for
such files is +board/<company>/<boardname>/+.
It should be noted that if the custom users are related to a specific
application, you should set variable +FOO_USERS+ in the package's +.mk+
file instead (see xref:generic-package-reference[]).

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+BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_TABLE+)
** adding custom devices nodes (using
+BR2_ROOTFS_STATIC_DEVICE_TABLE+)
* adding custom user accounts (using +BR2_ROOTFS_USERS_TABLES+)
* running arbitrary commands after generating the filesystem image
(using +BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT+)
* adding project-specific patches to some packages (using
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include::customize-rootfs.txt[]
include::customize-users-tables.txt[]
include::customize-post-image.txt[]
include::customize-packages.txt[]

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// -*- mode:doc -*- ;
[[makeuser-syntax]]
== Makeuser syntax documentation
== Makeusers syntax documentation
The syntax to create users is inspired by the makedev syntax, above, but
is specific to Buildroot.