MacPorts is hijacking account on MacOSXServer

[Rodolfo Aramayo]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 17:53, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2011, at 6:26 PM, David L Ballenger wrote:
>>
>> I'm assuming that the process is to find the highest unused UniqueID in
>> the local directory and use the next ID.  For systems with with no mobile
>> accounts and not a lot of users that's probably somewhere in the 500's.
>
> well, it does a loop asking the OS if the uid/gid is available until it finds one that should be available (see pextlib1.0/Pextlib.c line 242)
>
>> On my laptop, which is connected to my Open Directory domain, my personal
>> account is set up as a mobile accoun, which means I have an account int the
>> local domain with a UID of 1025 and macports got an ID of 1026.  That meant
>> that the Open Directory user with that ID (my wife) could no longer log into
>> her network account using my laptop.
>
> So, there was already an OD account with ID 1026 (or did you try to set up your wife's account later, and that failed?)
>
> I _think_ getpwuid() should pull in the information from OD (and maybe there's a lion change/bug that is causing the issue?). Certainly the manpage on 10.6 says "These functions obtain information from DirectoryService(8)"
>
>> Maybe a solution is to have macports look for an unused ID below 1000. Of course
>> that might not work it a system has 500 local accounts.
>
> I think we probably should figure out why the OD accounts (and groups?) aren't seen by base/ when it's looking for the next available UID/GID


I tried changing the macpports UID to a lower number '510' using
workgroupmanager but while I can still use the ports, selfupdate is
broken

Is there a way I can re-install Macports 2.0 again controlling the
userid and gid in the process and move all my ports there afterwards?





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