Portutil should use dscl instead of niutil

[giorgio_v@…]

Under the Mac OS X platform portutil.tcl should use dscl: Something (not tested) like:

proc adduser 
	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name}"
	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name} name ${name}"
	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name} passwd ${passwd}"
	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name} uid ${uid}"
	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name} gid ${gid}"
	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name} realname ${realname}"
	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name} NFSHomeDirectory ${home}"
	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name} UserShell ${shell}"}}}
{{{
proc addgroup 
	system "dscl . -create /Groups/${name}"
	system "dscl . -create /Groups/${name} name ${name}"
	system "dscl . -create /Groups/${name} gid ${gid}"
	system "dscl . -create /Groups/${name} passwd ${passwd}"
	system "dscl . -create /Groups/${name} GroupMembership ${users}"}}}
}}}

[giorgio_v@…]

My pseudo code didn't make it :-/

	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name}"
	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name} name ${name}"
	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name} passwd ${passwd}"
	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name} uid ${uid}"
	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name} gid ${gid}"
	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name} realname ${realname}"
	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name} NFSHomeDirectory ${home}"
	system "dscl . -create /Users/${name} UserShell ${shell}"

	system "dscl . -create /Groups/${name}"
	system "dscl . -create /Groups/${name} name ${name}"
	system "dscl . -create /Groups/${name} gid ${gid}"
	system "dscl . -create /Groups/${name} passwd ${passwd}"
	system "dscl . -create /Groups/${name} GroupMembership ${users}"

[markd@…]

Changing ticket to base.

[jberry@…]

This sounds like a good idea to me.

[jberry@…]

It will of course need testing.

[jmpp@…]

Setting to the "Needs developer review" milestone so that base hackers pick it up when browsing the roadmap.

-jmpp

[kballard (Lily Ballard)]

This seems like a good idea to me as well, and shouldn't be particularly hard.

Incidentally, after a reading of the dscl manpage, it appears you can specify all key/value pairs in one create command.

[jmpp@…]

This was fixed by Eridius in r25586, closing ticket.

-jmpp