diff --git a/package/leafnode2/Config.in b/package/leafnode2/Config.in
index 30a02c84b..ec5fa804e 100644
--- a/package/leafnode2/Config.in
+++ b/package/leafnode2/Config.in
@@ -7,4 +7,10 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LEAFNODE2
 	  server designed for small sites with just a few active
 	  newsgroups.
 
+	  Leafnode-2 needs inetd, check chapter 14 of the documentation at
+	  http://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/leafnode/beta/leafnode-readme.txt
+
+	  For example, you can add this line to inetd.conf:
+	  nntp    stream  tcp     nowait  news    /usr/sbin/leafnode
+
 	  http://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/leafnode/beta/
diff --git a/package/leafnode2/leafnode2.mk b/package/leafnode2/leafnode2.mk
index 3e6bd0bb4..3bc1c6845 100644
--- a/package/leafnode2/leafnode2.mk
+++ b/package/leafnode2/leafnode2.mk
@@ -32,4 +32,8 @@ endef
 
 LEAFNODE2_PRE_BUILD_HOOKS += LEAFNODE2_BUILD_SORTNL_TOOL
 
+define LEAFNODE2_USERS
+	news -1 news -1 * - - - Leafnode2 daemon
+endef
+
 $(eval $(autotools-package))