On Jul 25, 2011, at 6:26 PM, David L Ballenger wrote: > > 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. I manually changed the macports UniqueID > to an unused ID in the 500's and she could log in via my laptop again. > > 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. >
FWIW, I've seen some awkwardness with Lion <-> MacPorts assigning uid/gid numbers, and not just from mobile accounts (thank you for the nice write up!) I was building and using various add-on monitoring services like nagios while also trying to set up OD masters/replicas, and MacPorts started assigning uid/gid numbers non-locally (not in range 500-1000) while exploring the mysteries of OD. I think you can find some reproducers also with non-mobile accounts, and the right answer afaik would be to limit the choice to 500-100. Any system with >500 local users likely has a competent sysadmin staff whole will plan out a larger deployment methodically. JMHO, not a complaint at all: MacPorts and Lion are spiffy, and if all that is FUBAR is re-arranging some uid/gid assignments … that isn't too hard to do after the fact. The mobile accounts uid/gid collision is a harder issue to solve, yes. 73 de Jeff _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
