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On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 07:16 AM, Erik Price wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 04:22 AM, Neal A. Crocker wrote:
>> I took my IBook and my TiBook to the Apple Store, and after an hour of
>> fiddling and various tests, the "Genius" at the Genius Bar concluded
>> somewhat tentatively that my authentication problem had something to
>> do with all the extra users ("News Server", "MySQLDatabase Server",
>> etc.) installed by some fink package (I forget which one) which is
>> installed on both my computers.
>
> ...
>
>> By the way, I'm not really confident in his conclusion, but I thought
>> I'd post to this list in case other fink users have had this problem.
>
> You're probably right to wonder here... I'm not saying it's not
> possible (there are some pretty strange random bugs related to users,
> such as the infamous "Do not Delete Users from
> SystemPreferences->Users"), but did he venture any sort of hypothesis
> as to what the Users had to do with connecting via AppleTalk? That
> sounds kind of strange.
in my opinion, it most likely has nothing to do with the extra users. I
have had no problems ever with authentication of any kind. the only
problem *maybe* is if you used the passwd program to change something,
darwin could get confused, but it seems like he gave was a typical MS
answer: "Well, ummm.....we didn't put that there, so that must be the
problem." (read: I have no idea.) If he can't provide evidence that they
are causing the problem, I would keep searching. maybe lookupd or
netinfo or something is not doing it's job, does the console say
anything? what about a logout/reboot? Does it help?
Sorry for sounding so harsh, but I don't trust conclusions, especially
security related, without proof. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. Happy
hunting :-)
- -chris zubrzycki
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