id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc port 11596 "BUG: nextuid creates GUI users (uid >= 500) rather than ""hidden"" users (<500)" matt@… macports-tickets@… "When a port such as dbus creates a user using the adduser function, the user will be visible in the Accounts Preference pane etc. This is because Mac OS X treats uids >= 500 as login users, and pextlib's nextuid function just takes maxuid+1 for the userid. A better approach in NextuidCmd() in Pextlib.c would be to do something like int uid = 100; while (getpwuid(uid)) { uid++; } tcl_result = Tcl_NewIntObj(uid); or similar (I haven't tested this code)." defect closed Low base fixed