RealName account attribute missing from macports account

[bm55b@…]

If you run /System/Library/CoreServices/Directory\ Utility and look at the "macports" account, you will notice that unlike every other account, this account is missing the "RealName" attribute. This causes interesting things with the buggy OSX Lion SMB server which shows a mysterious blank account has access to your file shares which you can not disable. The work around is to manually edit the account with "Directory\ Utility" and add RealName to something like "Mac Ports".

After that, to disable "macports" access to the shares, you need to set a password for the account to something random because you can't disable access w/o the password! Go figure...

[bm55b@…]

Found out setting the password for the "macports" is not the issue to disable the access (you'll still want the RealName configured)... It has to do with Kerberos and ShadowHash order in the PLIST file deep in OSX. Here is the GUI fix for the problem...

​http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57345427-263/unable-to-disable-smb-file-sharing-in-os-x/

[jmr@…]

The macports user has a RealName on my machines.

[jmr@…]

Code that creates the user and quite clearly sets a RealName:

• source:/branches/release_2_0/base/Makefile.in#L52
• source:/branches/release_2_0/base/portmgr/dmg/postflight#L149