Document how to set up build users on Mac OS X

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Eelco Dolstra 2015-01-06 11:17:11 +01:00
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@ -52,6 +52,34 @@ This creates 10 build users. There can never be more concurrent builds
than the number of build users, so you may want to increase this if than the number of build users, so you may want to increase this if
you expect to do many builds at the same time.</para> you expect to do many builds at the same time.</para>
<para>On Mac OS X, you can create the required group and users by
running the following script:
<programlisting>
#! /bin/bash -e
dseditgroup -o create nixbld -q
gid=$(dscl . -read /Groups/nixbld | awk '($1 == "PrimaryGroupID:") {print $2 }')
echo "created nixbld group with gid $gid"
for i in $(seq 1 10); do
user=/Users/nixbld$i
uid="$((30000 + $i))"
dscl . create $user
dscl . create $user RealName "Nix build user $i"
dscl . create $user PrimaryGroupID "$gid"
dscl . create $user UserShell /usr/bin/false
dscl . create $user NFSHomeDirectory /var/empty
dscl . create $user UniqueID "$uid"
dseditgroup -o edit -a nixbld$i -t user nixbld
echo "created nixbld$i user with uid $uid"
done
</programlisting>
</para>
</simplesect> </simplesect>