diff --git a/acct-user/nginx/metadata.xml b/acct-user/nginx/metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..542a8a19f0f6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/acct-user/nginx/metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>whissi@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Thomas Deutschmann</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/acct-user/nginx/nginx-0.ebuild b/acct-user/nginx/nginx-0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..959c00fdf8c4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/acct-user/nginx/nginx-0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# Copyright 2019-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit acct-user
+
+ACCT_USER_ID="82"
+ACCT_USER_GROUPS=( "nginx" )
+ACCT_USER_HOME="/var/lib/nginx"
+
+acct-user_add_deps