On Jul 25, 2011, at 6:26 PM, David L Ballenger wrote: > > I'm assuming that the process is to find the highest unused UniqueID in > the local directory and use the next ID. For systems with with no mobile > accounts and not a lot of users that's probably somewhere in the 500's.
well, it does a loop asking the OS if the uid/gid is available until it finds one that should be available (see pextlib1.0/Pextlib.c line 242) > On my laptop, which is connected to my Open Directory domain, my personal > account is set up as a mobile accoun, which means I have an account int the > local domain with a UID of 1025 and macports got an ID of 1026. That meant > that the Open Directory user with that ID (my wife) could no longer log into > her network account using my laptop. So, there was already an OD account with ID 1026 (or did you try to set up your wife's account later, and that failed?) I _think_ getpwuid() should pull in the information from OD (and maybe there's a lion change/bug that is causing the issue?). Certainly the manpage on 10.6 says "These functions obtain information from DirectoryService(8)" > Maybe a solution is to have macports look for an unused ID below 1000. Of > course > that might not work it a system has 500 local accounts. I think we probably should figure out why the OD accounts (and groups?) aren't seen by base/ when it's looking for the next available UID/GID -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- dl...@geeklair.net ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev