Adding the iip user in OS/X

I don't know too much about OSX, but if you just do a make install-local it
will work without the user requirement.

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Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 5:25 PM
Subject: [iip-dev] Adding the iip user in OS/X


> I'm having trouble installing iip on OS/x.  Before running 'make
> install', the docs state that the user iip must exist.  I ran 'make
> install' anyway to see if it would create the user for me, and it
> errored because of the missing user.  The docs say there's a specific
> makefile for the Mac, but I couldn't find any file that seemed to fit
> the bill.
>
> OS/x does not come with the adduser or useradd commands; in fact,
> searching the man pages doesn't come up with any tool for adding
> users.  Any hints?
>
> I know I can add users through the GUI, but it doesn't seem right for
> the iip user.  I assume the iip user is not a user that I will log in
> with, but one of these system users that a daemon might use.  I don't
> fully understand why these users exist, but I know the passwd file has
> a completely different set of users than the gui.  The gui lists the
> one user, not even the root user.  Then the passwd file lists several
> system users, but not the user that the gui lists.
>
> My last attempt was to manually add an iip user to the passwd file,
> and create the /home/iip directory.  Then the wall I hit was when I
> tried to chown the /home/iip directory to the ipp user.  Despite the
> entry in the passwd file, the user 'iip' did not exist (according to
> chown), so I could not change ownership of the home directory.
>