On 5/12/12 6:39 AM, Dustin Cartwright wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The DirectoryServices daemon turns out to be open source, so I tried
> looking at the source for insight into this problem. There's some code
> in there which seems to be defaulting the UID to -1, but I couldn't make
> sense of why it was getting invoked on 10.7 but not 10.6. I made some
> tweaks to my branch, including assigning a UID and creating the user in
> one step rather than as separate steps. Alexander, can you check to see
> if this works for you now? Also, it would be great if someone could test
> it on 10.5. The branch is at
> https://github.com/dustinac/fink/tree/add-fink-bld
>
> Also, I found a comment in a MacPorts bug report:
> https://github.com/dustinac/fink/tree/add-fink-bld which says that UIDs
> less than 500 are reserved by Apple. So, I decided to change the
> auto-assign range to 600-699, which is also separated from regular
> users, whose IDs start at 500.
>
> Dustin
>

It doesn't work for me on 10.7.

10.7:

Adding user and group fink-bld for building packages unprivileged

No packages to install.

The core packages have been updated. You should now update the other
packages
using commands like 'fink update-all'.

$ id fink-bld
uid=4294967294(fink-bld) gid=4294967294(nobody)
groups=4294967294(nobody),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),12(everyone),61(localaccounts)
$ fink selfupdate
<...>
$ id fink-bld
uid=4294967294(fink-bld) gid=4294967294(nobody)
groups=4294967294(nobody),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),12(everyone),61(localaccounts)

Though dscl gives:

$ dscl . -read /Users/fink-bld uid
dsAttrTypeNative:uid: 600
$ dscl . -read /Users/fink-bld gid
dsAttrTypeNative:gid: 600

-----
10.6:

Adding user and group fink-bld for building packages unprivileged

No packages to install.

The core packages have been updated. You should now update the other
packages
using commands like 'fink update-all'.

$ id fink-bld
uid=600(fink-bld) gid=600(fink-bld)
groups=600(fink-bld),101(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),61(localaccounts),12(everyone),102(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2)

-----
10.5:

Adding user and group fink-bld for building packages unprivileged

No packages to install.

The core packages have been updated. You should now update the other
packages
using commands like 'fink update-all'.

$ id fink-bld
uid=600(fink-bld) gid=600(fink-bld) groups=600(fink-bld)
--
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/got-job/

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