MacPorts is hijacking account on MacOSXServer

[Rodolfo Aramayo]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 18:10, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
> On 2011-07-26 00:53 , Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> On Jul 25, 2011, at 6:26 PM, David L Ballenger wrote:
>>> 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)"
>
> The macports user itself is not being created there, but in the
> portmgr/dmg/postflight script.
>
> The essential command is this one:
>
> ${DSCL} -q . -create /Users/${RUNUSR} UniqueID $(($(${DSCL} . -list
> /Users UniqueID | /usr/bin/awk '{print $2}' | sort -ug | tail -1)+1))
>
> So here we are looking for the greatest ID in use and take the next one.
>
> Could it be that this kind of account is not recognized as we are
> querying "." (the local domain) only?

YES. because in this case the user had access to the computer but not
a local account so it was not listed as local but as having a network
account

>
> Rainer
>