MacPorts is hijacking account on MacOSXServer

Titus von Boxberg titus at v9g.de
Mon Jul 25 21:43:51 PDT 2011


Am 26.07.2011 um 04:21 schrieb James Berry:
> 
> On Jul 25, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Rodolfo Aramayo wrote:
> 
>> David is right. This is a hard issue and believe me I have burn many,
>> many candles during Holidays and weekends trying to solve userIDs
>> conflicts in MacOSServers.
> 
> What if MacPorts were simply always to try to find an unused id in the range 500 - 1000, using whatever algorithm is convenient?

Why not make sure the number is below 500?
That's the normal range for daemon users.

Regards
Titus



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