On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 03:16 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
> They shouldn't show up in the login window...
That was my mistake, sorry.
> Users which can't be used to login (i.e. have a password of "*") don't
> show up in the login window, and I think my experimentation a while
> back
On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 02:16 PM, Erik Price wrote:
> Hmm... I just installed the 'passwd' package for the first time the
> other day. And you know what's strange? The 'dummy' users aren't
> showing up in my Login window (at startup) after all! I didn't make
> any changes to the
On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 12:13 PM, Thomas Peters II wrote:
> I've never noticed the 'dummy' users from the passwd package showing up
> in the login panel. Since it's undesirable to have them show up in the
> login panel, I wouldn't say there's anything wrong with it. I believe
>
On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 09:16 AM, Erik Price wrote:
> Hmm... I just installed the 'passwd' package for the first time the other
> day. And you know what's strange? The 'dummy' users aren't showing up
> in my Login window (at startup) after all! I didn't make any changes to
> the
I've never noticed the 'dummy' users from the passwd package showing up in
the login panel. Since it's undesirable to have them show up in the login
panel, I wouldn't say there's anything wrong with it. I believe people
have been finding them in:
System Preferences > Users, and for some reaso
On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 04:02 PM, Derek Homeier wrote:
> Yes, I think UID<100 is exactly the criterion (well, maybe <=100,
> dunno ;-
> ).
> I have fared very well on my system with just reducing all UIDs and
> GIDs of the passwd-fink users by 200. Which of course raises the
> quest
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
>>
On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 02:52 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>> (I already deleted them via the pane and my system refused to recognize
>> my Admin account!!)?
>
> What? It probably isn't wise to delete them via the Users pane because
> System Preferences is idiotic. I don't know what you'r
On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 02:52 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>> (I already deleted them via the pane and my system refused to
>> recognize my Admin account!!)?
>
> What? It probably isn't wise to delete them via the Users pane because
> System Preferences is idiotic. I don't know what you
On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 02:06 PM, dtournemille wrote:
> Why does Fink do this
Some packages (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) need their own users to run (for
security/safety reasons). For some weird reason, gnome-libs depends on
passwd... Why the hell, Masanori?
> and will Fink programs ru
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
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?
I've only installed Gimp and XFree86 via Fink, and suddenly these users showed up in my U
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