On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 10:28 AM, Erik Price wrote:
> > On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 09:06 AM, dtournemille wrote: > >> Hello all. >> >> I hope this hasn't been covered already, although I'm sure it has. >> >> I'm told that a list of bizarre users in my Users preference pane are >> created by Fink. But does anyone know why Fink does this? > > It's part of the "passwd" package that is a dependency of the Gimp (I > think). I'm pretty sure that you are prompted as to whether or not you > want to go ahead and set these users up when Fink installs "passwd", > though perhaps not with the binary installer (I used a source install). It seems to be an indirect dependency of it. Are you sure that you only installed 'gimp'? >> Why does Fink do this and will Fink programs run without the users (I >> already deleted them via the pane and my system refused to recognize my >> Admin account!!)? > > Hmmm... I think that it would have been better to ask first, -then- > make the changes. In this case, I don't really know how it will affect > you... it depends on which services you are planning to use. Others on > this list know Gimp better than I. I'm the maintainer :) > > But this makes me wonder -- what criteria does Mac OS X use to hide its > own default "extra" users from the login prompt? I know I can switch > to a login screen that requires one to type the login name manually > rather than picking from a list of icons, but if I want to keep the > list format, how do I hide the rest (the same way Darwin hides "www", > "nobody", "daemon", "root" etc)? Or does it automatically hide login > names with UID < 100 ? > > > Erik > > > > > ---- > > Erik Price > Web Developer Temp > Media Lab, H.H. Brown > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > —— Alexander Strange [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Gandalf, has your fondness for the hobbits' weed affected your mind?" - The Lord Of The Rings Movie _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
