Re: Distributed audit daemon committed (was: svn commit: r243752 - in head: etc etc/defaults etc/mail etc/mtree etc/rc.d share/man/man4 usr.sbin usr.sbin/auditdistd (fwd))

On 2 Dec 2012 15:34, "Ryan Stone" <rysto32_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Robert Watson <rwatson_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Just to follow up on this thread, since the question has come up a
number
> > of times.  "mergemaser -p" should be run prior to installworld always,
but
> > most of the time will do very little.  One of its responsibilities is to
> > add any necessary accounts and groups depended on by base system
components
> > -- e.g., that will be referenced during installworld as part of setting
> > file ownership and groups.
> >
> >
> I often use "make installworld installkernel distribution DESTDIR=..." to
> create bootable images (e.g. for a USB stick).  What's the recommendation
> for that case?  Manually create the auditdistd user on the build host?

You could run mergemaster -p; it doesn't do anything that would hurt your
running system; just adds important users etc.

Chris