<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="">In a message posted already in this list’s archives but not yet appearing in the batched emails I receive from the list, Johsua Root writes:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>“ … the 'macports’ user… should be as unprivileged as possible, and thus not a member of any groups other than its own.
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"TBH, the easiest fix is probably to delete the 'macports' user and group, and let them be recreated by the installer during step 2 of the Migration process."</pre><div class="">How does one, in fact, delete the ‘macports’ user and group before letting them be recreated by the installer during Step 2 of the MacPorts migration process?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(I note that no user ‘macports’ shows in System Preferences > Users & Groups even though user ‘macports’ appears on the macOS login screen.)</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 31 Jul2022, at 11:27 AM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">As follow-up:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What user group should macadmin belong to? During the migration I was asked whether to use a temporary something-or-other for macports user or else to make it part of the admin group. I did the latter.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 31 Jul2022, at 11:01 AM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On an iMac I was running MacPorts 2.7.2 under macOS Monterey 12.5. I used the macOS Migration Assistant to migrate Documents and Settings from a Time Machine backup of that iMac to a new Mac Studio, also running macOS 12.5.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now at the login screen I show a user MacPorts, but I do not see such user listed when, in my admin account, I use System Preferences > Users & Groups.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What, if anything, should be done?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(I do realize that I will want to do a migration of MacPorts itself on the new Mac Studio, not least because it is Apple silicon whereas the old iMac was Intel.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Related: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/317576/how-to-delete-macports-user-after-using-the-migration-assistant" class="">https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/317576/how-to-delete-macports-user-after-using-the-migration-assistant</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/285710/is-it-possible-to-hide-an-account-from-the-login-screen-where-you-can-see-all-th" class="">https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/285710/is-it-possible-to-hide-an-account-from-the-login-screen-where-you-can-see-all-th</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div class="">---<br class="">Murray Eisenberg<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a><br class="">Mobile (413)-427-5334<br class="">503 King Farm Blvd #101<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="">Rockville, MD 20850-6667<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div class="">---<br class="">Murray Eisenberg<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a><br class="">Mobile (413)-427-5334<br class="">503 King Farm Blvd #101<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="">Rockville, MD 20850-6667<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div>---<br class="">Murray Eisenberg<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a><br class="">Mobile (413)-427-5334<br class="">503 King Farm Blvd #101<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="">Rockville, MD 20850-6667<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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