<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">If you create local userson macOS, it starts with uid 501 and then goes up. (for network users it always (still?) started with 1025 and then goes up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">MacPorts, when it creates users, starts with 500 and then goes up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, depending on the order of creation, the same user has different uid (same for groups). It is not generally a problem, but I don’t like it. Depending on the order of actions on a system you get different uids for different MacPorts-generated users, intermingled with created local users.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’d like to tell macports to start at another number, to lessen the chance of this.</div><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Gerben Wierda<br class=""><a href="https://ea.rna.nl/the-book/" class="">Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture</a><br class=""><a href="https://ea.rna.nl/the-book-edition-iii/" class="">Mastering ArchiMate</a><br class=""><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/blog/architecture-for-real-enterprises/" class="">Architecture for Real Enterprises</a> at InfoWorld<br class=""><a href="https://eapj.org/on-slippery-ice/" class="">On Slippery Ice</a> at EAPJ</div>
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