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.



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