On 16/06/2005, at 2:55 PM, Josh McKinnon wrote:
On 16/06/2005, at 13:28 , Mark Secker wrote:
umm let me hazard a guess, off the cuff and all that, that somehow
the new user has been created with a UID (User ID) of less than 500?
UID's of 501 or lower are generally reserved for system processes
and are hidden from the GUI's list of users
No, this is not the problem. This is affecting at least two computers
that I use, running 10.4.1 - one clean installed, the other delivered
with 10.4.
The new user's home directory is being created, but no user or group
is created. The home directory is even created with the (seemingly)
right UID (ie. 523, then 524 for two users added on my machine)
Also reported here
<http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-admin/2005-June/
042645.html>
I don't know a solution, other than creating a new user by hand, which
is a damn pain. I have submitted a bug report on this issue.
-josh
So , has Repair permissions been run ?
Bob
Has anyone had this problem?
I add a user, and all seems well (including the creation of the
user's
directories, etc), but the new user does not appear either in the
user list
in the accounts preferences pane, or when I use the login screen!
I've also
tried rebooting with no effect.
I'm using 10.4.1 on a 1.25GHz G4 17inch iMac.
Cheers,
Andrew
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