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Creating 'secret' user accounts in 10.2
Authored by: ewg on Nov 14, '03 02:27:59PM

Be very, very careful changing uid numbers in Mac OS X.

The reason is that user information, including file ownership, uses the uid, not the username. If you change the uid, you're no longer you.

See a previous poster's 'find' command for a way to change file ownership information to match a changed uid.



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