> On Mar 2, 2017, at 08:02, Rainer Müller <rai...@macports.org> wrote: > > On 2017-03-02 00:34, Brandon Allbery wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org >> <mailto:ryandes...@macports.org>> wrote: >> >> I'm not talking about an unusual case. I'm talking about the >> completely normal case that I expect all users will undergo when >> moving to a new computer: complete the setup assistant and use it to >> transfer data from their old computer. If they accept the defaults >> of that operation, as I did, they are left in the situation I am now >> left in. >> >> >> But there's not a lot that MacPorts can do about Apple's defaults, and >> after the fact it's a bit difficult to try to undo the damage it does. > > Of course we cannot change the Migration Assistant itself. > > However, this observation probably means we are not using the right > naming convention or flags to exclude these accounts from a migration to > a new machine...
My guess is that the migration assistant knows that user ids under 500 are system accounts and should not be presented. I don't know how it handles system accounts... (Whether it migrates or discards the contents of their home directories.)
