On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, joerg van den hoff wrote:
> I never managed to understand fully the interaction of the standard UNIX
> config files and the NetInfo stuff used (partly?) in MacOS
It's an evolving relationship, but basically if an application has no
override (e.g. setting a shell in Terminal's preferences), then NetInfo
controls most configuration settings. (In 10.4, this will probably be
replaced by OpenLDAP, but it kind of doesn't matter, as NI and LDAP can
already interact with the same system database files.)
Anyway, it's fairly easy to interact with this stuff on the command
line. If you want to change your shell that way, do it like this:
sudo dscl . -create /users/youraccount shell /bin/zsh
Or equivalent.
Also, 10.3 offers the usual Unix chsh, chfn, chpass commands.
This can all be examined with the `nireport` command:
nireport . /users uid name home realname shell
Or if you miss the old /etc/password format, try `nidump passwd .`
NetInfo is actually pretty useful once you get used to it.
--
Chris Devers
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