diff --git a/acct-user/sobexsrv/metadata.xml b/acct-user/sobexsrv/metadata.xml
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+++ b/acct-user/sobexsrv/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <email>bircoph@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Andrew Savchenko</name>
+  </maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/acct-user/sobexsrv/sobexsrv-0.ebuild b/acct-user/sobexsrv/sobexsrv-0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit acct-user
+
+DESCRIPTION="A user for sobexsrv: a secure OBEX server"
+ACCT_USER_ID=387
+ACCT_USER_GROUPS=( ${PN} )
+ACCT_USER_HOME="/var/spool/sobexsrv"
+
+acct-user_add_deps