MacPorts is hijacking account on MacOSXServer

Rodolfo Aramayo raramayo at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 13:01:25 PDT 2011


Yes you are right but still everything inside '/opt/local' is 'root:admin'
Shouldn't it be 'macports:admin/staff or wheel'??


On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 14:54, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Jul 25, 2011, at 14:44, Rodolfo Aramayo wrote:
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>> IMPORTANT
>>
>> For those if you running MacPorts on MacOSXServers...be aware!
>>
>> The latest installation of MacPorts is taking over mobile accounts on
>> MacOSXServer
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>> Obviously the installer does not determine the presence of 'mobile'
>> accounts and finds the next available UniqueID number available and
>> assigns it to the 'macports:staff'
>>
>> The problem this creates is obvious, mobile users using that
>> particular UniqueID lose control over their directories and files
>>
>> While the problem can be easily fixed by reverting the usernames to
>> their old ones, it is not clear to me what implications this will have
>> on the macports user. Please advice here
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> I am not familiar with "mobile accounts".
>
>
>> Also I do not understand why the '/opt' directory is not now owned by
>> the 'macports:staff' user
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> The MacPorts prefix is /opt/local, not /opt.
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