You should be using NIS (http://www.bresink.com/osx/nis.html) or something similar to manage user security (I am familiar with NIS but this article suggests there may be more appropriate solutions for a all-Apple network). Users should be authenticating to a nameserver and should be able to log onto any machine on the network. Local user ids should exist as a fallback for when the network is unavailable, but I can see no reason why an application such as you describe (what exactly is it?) would use local ids.
On 10/11/07, John DeCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Oh yes, the much vaunted Mac ease of use. 2 examples from this past week: >> >> 1 - I wanted to change the short name of the root admin, so that all of my >> Macs had the same one. The consultant I used to deploy these used several >> different short (and long) names, bless them. I wanted to change it as I >> have an application that scans the network and creates an up-to-date >> hardware inventory, which it does effortlessly for my PCs. >> >> *40* steps to do this. 40. If you don't make things worse doing it. > >I can't even figure out what you are talking about. You can certainly have >more than one user with the privileges you need. You shouldn't be using >root to do the hardware inventory - that is a security violation. You >should be creating a user just for this purpose with just the privileges >needed. I can see you actually logging in as Administrator on hundreds of >Windows machines - all with the same password. Yow! That is scary. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
