On Sat, 6 Dec 2025 14:30:52 +0300 Artem Bunichev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I came across this bug > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264966 > and I think that that would be a really great idea to have users(7) and > groups(7) pages in FreeBSD. Now I'm interested in creating a patch with these > pages, adopted from NetBSD users(7) (https://man.netbsd.org/users.7) and > groups(7) (https://man.netbsd.org/groups.7) with appropriate changes for > FreeBSD. > > I must admit that I'm not quite sure that all the information mentioned in > NetBSD pages is 100% right for FreeBSD as well. For instance, I couldn't > find the following groups in FreeBSD: wsrc, maildrop, postfix, named, _proxy > (which in FreeBSD is called proxy), _timedc, _sdpd, _httpd, _mdnsd, _tcpdump, > _tss, _gpio, _dhcpcd (called dhcp in FreeBSD), _rtadvd, etc... For most part, > I guess these are missed because their programs are not in the FreeBSD base? > > I decided that it would be a nice strategy to get a list of all groups from > /etc/group and document them one-by-one. But I don't know a proper way to > tell > which software does need/use a particular group/user. Could you please give > me > some advise on how this should be done? > > And I also want to ask would it be correct if I assume that information about > all basic system groups and users that are present in both NetBSD and FreeBSD > (e.g. root, toor, wheel, operator, ...) is accurate for FreeBSD as well? > > P.S. Maybe you have some suggestions or ideas for new users(7) and groups(7) > to > be implemented? I also would be happy to get some tips on how to port these > pages into FreeBSD better (I have some experience with contributing to FreeBSD > manpages, but not that much). > > Thank you, > Artem.
I also want to ask commiters (or active manpage contributors): say if I have a new manpage for groups(7) and now I want to mention it (in 'See also' section) in several other related pages. Should these changes to other manpages be included in the commit that introduces the groups(7) itself or should it be a set of individual independent patches for each page?
