Hi,
The DirectoryServices daemon turns out to be open source, so I tried
looking at the source for insight into this problem. There's some code in
there which seems to be defaulting the UID to -1, but I couldn't make sense
of why it was getting invoked on 10.7 but not 10.6. I made some tweaks to
my branch, including assigning a UID and creating the user in one step
rather than as separate steps. Alexander, can you check to see if this
works for you now? Also, it would be great if someone could test it on
10.5. The branch is at https://github.com/dustinac/fink/tree/add-fink-bld
Also, I found a comment in a MacPorts bug report:
https://github.com/dustinac/fink/tree/add-fink-bld which says that UIDs
less than 500 are reserved by Apple. So, I decided to change the
auto-assign range to 600-699, which is also separated from regular users,
whose IDs start at 500.
Dustin
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Alexander Hansen <
alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/10/12 3:06 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> > On 5/10/12 11:04 AM, Dustin Cartwright wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Alexander Hansen
> >> <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com <mailto:alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> It didn't do the right thing for me, apparently:
> >>
> >> Adding user and group fink-bld for building packages unprivileged
> >> No packages to install.
> >>
> >> The core packages have been updated. You should now update the other
> >> packages
> >> using commands like 'fink update-all'.
> >>
> >> Alexanders-MacBook-Pro:my_fink hansen$ id fink-bld
> >> uid=4294967294(fink-bld) gid=4294967294(nobody)
> >>
> groups=4294967294(nobody),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),12(everyone),61(localaccounts)
> >>
> >> (OS 10.7.4, if it matters)
> >>
> >>
> >> Strange. It worked for me on 10.6.8. One difference I noticed between
> >> the passwd package and the new code is that the former adds the users
> >> and then the groups whereas the latter adds the fink-bld group and then
> >> the fink-bld user. I'm not really sure how, but this could be making the
> >> difference. I changed the order in my branch. Can you try again with the
> >> updated version? If that doesn't fix it, what happens if you delete the
> >> fink-bld user, but not the group?
> >>
> >> Dustin
> >
> > I made some debugging progress.
> >
> > On 10.7 I get:
> >
> > $ dscl . -read /Users/fink-bld gid
> > dsAttrTypeNative:gid: 280
> > Alexanders-MacBook-Pro:my_fink hansen$ id fink-bld
> > uid=4294967294(fink-bld) gid=4294967294(nobody)
> >
> groups=4294967294(nobody),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),12(everyone),61(localaccounts)
> >
> > On 10.6, on the other hand, from an absolutely identical fink checkout:
> > $ id fink-bld
> > uid=280(fink-bld) gid=280(fink-bld)
> >
> groups=280(fink-bld),101(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),61(localaccounts),12(everyone),102(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2)
> >
> > I'm not sure why it's being balky on 10.7.
>
> On 10.7, everything seems to get set properly after one more selfupdate:
>
> Alexanders-MacBook-Pro:web hansen$ id fink-bld
> uid=4294967294(fink-bld) gid=4294967294(nobody)
>
> groups=4294967294(nobody),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),12(everyone),61(localaccounts)
> Alexanders-MacBook-Pro:web hansen$ id fink-bld
> uid=4294967294(fink-bld) gid=4294967294(nobody)
>
> groups=4294967294(nobody),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),12(everyone),61(localaccounts)
> <selfupdate here>
> Alexanders-MacBook-Pro:web hansen$ id fink-bld
> uid=280(fink-bld) gid=280(fink-bld)
>
> groups=280(fink-bld),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),12(everyone),61(localaccounts)
>
>
> --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
> http://finkakh.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/got-job/
>
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