Creating the macports user

[Kendall Shaw]

If anyone reading this in the future wants to know the answer to the question about the macports user, this is the output of dscl . -read /Users/macports:

sAttrTypeNative:accountPolicyData:
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>creationTime</key>
<real>1457041233.9760699</real>
<key>passwordLastSetTime</key>
<real>1457041234.3294621</real>
</dict>
</plist>

AppleMetaNodeLocation: /Local/Default
GeneratedUID: CE14C598-53A5-41B1-999B-5FC21845FE3E
NFSHomeDirectory: /opt/local/var/macports/home
Password: *
PrimaryGroupID: 502
RealName: MacPorts
RecordName: macports
RecordType: dsRecTypeStandard:Users
UniqueID: 501
UserShell: /usr/bin/false

Kendall

From: <macports-users-bounces at lists.macosforge.org<mailto:macports-users-bounces at lists.macosforge.org>> on behalf of Kendall Shaw <kendall.shaw at workday.com<mailto:kendall.shaw at workday.com>>
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 2:15 PM
To: "macports-users at lists.macosforge.org<mailto:macports-users at lists.macosforge.org>" <macports-users at lists.macosforge.org<mailto:macports-users at lists.macosforge.org>>
Subject: Re: Creating the macports user

Thanks. I have rerun the installer and run upgrade outdated and it is not complaining about the user. So, perhaps  the installation is sane now.

From: Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com<mailto:allbery.b at gmail.com>>
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 1:30 PM
To: Kendall Shaw <kendall.shaw at workday.com<mailto:kendall.shaw at workday.com>>
Cc: "macports-users at lists.macosforge.org<mailto:macports-users at lists.macosforge.org>" <macports-users at lists.macosforge.org<mailto:macports-users at lists.macosforge.org>>
Subject: Re: Creating the macports user

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Kendall Shaw <kendall.shaw at workday.com<mailto:kendall.shaw at workday.com>> wrote:
Actually, I would still like to know what information is needed to create the macports user since I have to wait until an appropriate time to go through the migration steps.

Just installing macports via the installer dmg will do it, without disrupting installed ports (but again, you will have disrupted some of those anyway through missing their startupitems etc.).

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