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diff --git a/doc/manual/installation/multi-user.xml b/doc/manual/installation/multi-user.xml index 69ae1ef27041..49c4f723597e 100644 --- a/doc/manual/installation/multi-user.xml +++ b/doc/manual/installation/multi-user.xml @@ -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 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> |