1// -*- mode:doc; -*- 2// vim: set syntax=asciidoc: 3 4[[customize-users]] 5=== Adding custom user accounts 6 7Sometimes it is needed to add specific users in the target system. 8To cover this requirement, Buildroot provides support for so-called 9_users tables_. To use this feature, set config option 10+BR2_ROOTFS_USERS_TABLES+ to a space-separated list of users tables, 11regular text files following the xref:makeuser-syntax[makeusers syntax]. 12 13As shown in xref:customize-dir-structure[], the recommended location for 14such files is +board/<company>/<boardname>/+. 15 16It should be noted that if the custom users are related to a specific 17application, you should set variable +FOO_USERS+ in the package's +.mk+ 18file instead (see xref:generic-package-reference[]). 19