Hello all -- Recently I have been industrializing my company's use of MacPorts on Xserve, and I noticed something interesting today, namely, that password record are created by some MacPorts installations for Group record types. Do Groups need passwords? I'm not so sure they do and this could be a bug.
As many here in the community already know, some MacPorts require daemons to be run with local directory domain usernames and groups. For example, the nagios and openldap ports. In the case of nagios, a user named nagios is created in the local directory domain when its port is installed. But also a *group* named nagios is created in the local directory domain. Similarly, for openldap, both a user named ldap and a *group* named ldap are created. Let's take the *nagios* example. When I look at the *group* named nagios which is most definitely created after a "port -v install nagios", I get this: $ dscl . -read /Groups/nagios AppleMetaNodeLocation: /Local/Default GeneratedUID: AAAAAFFF-F094-4DB8-ADD3-C7DD66B5A5A1 *Password: ** PrimaryGroupID: 502 RealName: nagios RecordName: nagios RecordType: dsRecTypeStandard:Groups I'm not sure that a Password key should exist at all (regardless of what the value is for the key, in this case an asterisk I think means its a "crypt" type of password). Interestingly enough, the user record also named nagios also has a Password key and value which is the same as the nagio group record: $ dscl . -read /Users/nagios AppleMetaNodeLocation: /Local/Default GeneratedUID: AAAAA715-6AB3-4E12-B608-BE91E78E46A6 NFSHomeDirectory: /dev/null *Password: ** PrimaryGroupID: -1 RealName: nagios RecordName: nagios RecordType: dsRecTypeStandard:Users UniqueID: 502 UserShell: /dev/null The Password key and its value for the user record is understandable, but I am not so sure about the Group. Is the inclusion of a Password key (with a value such as "*") merely a way to impose a password type on all users that become a member of that group? It could be a something as simple as that. Then again, maybe a group does not need a Password key after all? Thanks, T.M.
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