On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Gary Kerbaugh wrote:
> Thanks for all you've done Max!
Hear hear, good job to everyone that worked on 0.4.0. :)
> My shrubbery caught fire and told me to do it.
Damned Sunday gardeners... ;)
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Apache / m
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
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 n
on 4/18/02 1:46 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
> The bug is not in NetInfo, but rather in the Users pane of System
> Preferences (it shows users with UIDs of >100, when in fact it should
> ignore all UIDs < 500 since all GUI users must have UIDs >= 500 to show
> up in loginwindow).
I'm sorry Finle
on 4/18/02 11:43 AM, Max Horn wrote:
> ARGH! As it turns out, this was never fixed in stable, only in
> unstable! A very evil slip, grmbl.
Not that evil. EVERY Fink user owes you a GREAT debt! You're doing an
unbelievable job. Fink could have been dead in the water but the great ones
step up
On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 04:09 PM, Gary Kerbaugh wrote:
> Some users have used NetInfo to delete these users and NetInfo
> replies with a dialog asking if the user would like to have ownership
> of the
> deleted user's files transferred to him. The user thinks, "What harm
> could
> that
Thanks for the reply,
I'm hardly surprised that you guys are way ahead of this issue! Still, I
really appreciate knowing that assigning the home directory to /dev/null
will not hobble the corresponding packages. I start with Fink long ago and
the extra users on my machine still have / as thei
At 17:30 Uhr +0200 18.04.2002, Max Horn wrote:
>At 11:09 Uhr -0400 18.04.2002, Gary Kerbaugh wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>> It is clear that the problem lies with NetInfo but the experience
>>doubtless leaves these unfortunate victims with a bad feeling toward Fink.
>
>Indeed.
>
>>Is it absolutely neces
At 11:09 Uhr -0400 18.04.2002, Gary Kerbaugh wrote:
[...]
> It is clear that the problem lies with NetInfo but the experience
>doubtless leaves these unfortunate victims with a bad feeling toward Fink.
Indeed.
>Is it absolutely necessary to assign / as the home directory for these extra
>u
This is already fixed. Thanks for the note though.
Peter
On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 12:09 AM, Gary Kerbaugh wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Forgive me if this is old news but searching the list didn't find a
> discussion of this. I may having simply searched for the wrong words.
[snip long discus
Hi Guys,
Forgive me if this is old news but searching the list didn't find a
discussion of this. I may having simply searched for the wrong words.
NetInfo apparently has a bug. (surprise, surprise) It has caused the
following problem that I've heard about on lists lately. Fink creates
se
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