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[[customize-users]]

=== Adding custom user accounts

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Sometimes it is needed to add specific users in the target system.

To cover this requirement, Buildroot provides support for so-called

_users tables_. To use this feature, set config option

+BR2_ROOTFS_USERS_TABLES+ to a space-separated list of users tables,

regular text files following the xref:makeuser-syntax[makeusers syntax].

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As shown in xref:customize-dir-structure[], the recommended location for

such files is +board/<company>/<boardname>/+.

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It should be noted that if the custom users are related to a specific

application, you should set variable +FOO_USERS+ in the package's +.mk+

file instead (see xref:generic-package-reference[]).