Opened 19 years ago

Closed 19 years ago

#3815 closed defect (invalid)

OS X add user code sets the wrong homedir

Reported by: michaelm@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: base Version: 1.0
Keywords: Cc:
Port:

Description

For example...

DEBUG: Executing com.apple.configure (exim) niutil: can't create directory /users/exim: Permission denied Error: Target com.apple.configure returned: shell command "niutil -create . /users/exim" returned error 104 Command output: niutil: can't create directory /users/exim: Permission denied

permissions are down to the fact I wasn't root but on OS X the directory surely shouldn't be /users/ exim (with lowercase u... some people have case sensitive fs...)

Also, I think dports app users like exim and so on should have homedirs in prefix e.g. $prefix/var/ home/exim? or something...

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 19 years ago by jtownsend@…

The command is actually not setting a home directory attribute but simply trying to create the exim user. This is the /users/exim "directory" inside the NetInfo database, not in your filesystem.

comment:2 Changed 19 years ago by pguyot (Paul Guyot)

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed
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