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Authored by: EatingPie on Oct 23, '01 07:08:42PM
I pretty-much did the same thing in OSX 10.0.4 a few weeks before upgrading to 10.1, and it caused all kinds of problems. Note that I did so to my primary "Admin" user (I only have one user on my machine, me).


Note: The Admin user (typically, the first user you create) has a userID of 501 when you set up your computer.


First off, some Applications would install, but not be runnable. This is becuase the user ID in the subfolders of the .app bundle, for some reason, were installed wtih the Apple-assigned 501 of Admin. And since I was no longer Mr. 501, I couldn't access a bunch of stuff in that bundle. The Moose's Apprentice was one application I recall being particularly unhappy.



Second, and far worse, was my installation of MacOS X 10.1. It pretty-much failed miserably (the misery was mine, actually). I had a system that seemed half-and-half 10.0/10.1. The Preferences Pane, for example, would not come up at all. I ended up reformatting my drive and re-installing a basic OSX 10.0.4 and slapping 10.1 on top of that.



Now, I made one other change, I moved my Applications Folder, and created a symbolic link to it, named "Applications" so installers could still find it. This worked fine, but it may have been the actual cause of my hosed-up 10.1 install. I just don't know for sure. But until someone actually tests this out---with lots of time and hard-drives to spare---it is worth a note of warning that changing your userID may screw you up your next upgrade!



Finally, if you do decide to change your userID, you should heed one other warning:


Do not log out until you change your Home directory, and all sub-directories, to the new userID!


If you log out before changing your Home directory, you will not be able to log back in! This is just like the hosed-up-Application problem. You're not Mr. 501 any more, so you cannot access anything that has a userID of 501... Including your preferences, which the Finder seems to rely on.



That said, I would like to hear if people do have successes with changing their userID. I would like to again, but after the hassles I had before, I 've chosen to contently reamain Mr. 501 for the time being.



-Pie



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Verified: Moving Applications Folder Hosed 10.0.4 to 10.1 Upgrade
Authored by: EatingPie on Oct 24, '01 03:58:43PM

Apologies. Just found another user on MacFixit that moved their Applications Folder, and they had the exact same 10.0.4 --> 10.1 upgrade problem that I described. So it looks like the userID change is NOT the cause of the upgrade issue.

Other Warnings still apply...



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what's the fuss?
Authored by: adrew on Feb 15, '02 10:33:59AM

I simply added a new group to using Netinfo Manager on MacOSX with the same gid as the nfs mounted directory, then changed the permissions of the mounted directory on my nfs server accordingly (in this case dr-wr-w---). Or am I missing the point?



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