On Nov 9, 2011, at 18:10, Michael O'Brien wrote: > On Nov 9, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> Another question: what uid is the macports user on your system now? Or is >> there no macports user? > > There is no MacPorts user. The login history of this machine is complex. > Until recently it was joined, using Likewise, to a corporate Active Directory > server. We de-joined it because Likewise was spamming the logs, and MacPorts > is enough fun without dealing with Likewise stealing cycles. At the moment > we have users 501, 502, and 504, plus a disabled Guest account. Doubtless > there was a User 503, but right now, according to "find", the only stuff > owned by 503 is in the MacPorts directory. Macports' entire prefix > directory, as well as /Applications/Macports, was deleted and > reinstalled/regenerated from scratch after that change took place, so it > appears to be pulling User 503 out of thin air. At the moment the only > things owned by that user are out in the MacPorts prefix directory. And, as > I say, this is a clean install of MacPorts from source, with only the > --prefix changed.
Installing MacPorts 2, from source or disk image, should create the macports user if there isn't one; if you don't have a macports users now, you should make one. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
