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generateduid problem
Authored by: cupertinox on Jul 27, '07 09:17:56AM
great hint, however i had some issues to make it work on tiger 10.4.10

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my problem was that adding a new group "shared" with id 401 (by duplicating an existing; step 2 above) via netinfo did not quite make the cut. testing whether my user was in the newly generated group (with the id command from the terminal) gave a negative result. utilizing an otherwise unheard outcry from our community (found at http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t%20%3C/t-46830.html) i realized that the new group needed a unique generateduid (in addition to unique id) to make it work. so i generated one from the terminal using the uuidgen command and pasted the result into the appropriate field in netinfo. after logout/login my users showed correctly all relevant groups.

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i promoted a user's iphoto library to the shared library by copying (not moving) it there. seems so, that per default iphoto libraries are created 700 in the user's Picture directory, however it has to be at least 770 in the shared folder.

in the wake of the release of ilife07 (maybe next week) all this hopefully gets rendered irrelevant with apple introducing a proper solution for multiple users living and editing there ilife collaboratively on the same computer (wishfull thinking).



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