diff --git a/acct-user/bird/bird-0.ebuild b/acct-user/bird/bird-0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2020-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit acct-user
+
+DESCRIPTION="User for BIRD"
+# TCP port 179, but 179 is already used by acct-group/_bgpd
+ACCT_USER_ID=180
+ACCT_USER_GROUPS=( bird )
+
+acct-user_add_deps
diff --git a/acct-user/bird/metadata.xml b/acct-user/bird/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>alarig@swordarmor.fr</email>
+		<name>Alarig Le Lay</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project" proxied="proxy">
+		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>