At 12:08 AM +0100 4/19/02, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 11:57 PM, Gary Kerbaugh wrote:
>
>>However, I feel that the
>>greatest crime is the fact that NetInfo talks about changing ownership of
>>files owned by the deleted extra user while, in fact, it changes ownership
>>of EVERY file on the computer!
>
>NetInfo has nothing to do with changing the ownership, it's System 
>Preferences that does it. You can remove the user manually with 
>NetInfo, and you get no side effects or molly-cuddling warning 
>messages.


And indeed, using NetInfo is the best way around the problem if you 
really want to delete those users. NetInfo does the RIGHT thing. 
System Preferences does the wrong thing.

-Ben
-- 
http://homepage.mac.com/bhines/

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