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10.5: Move a user's home directory via the command line
Since Leopard removes the NetInfo Manager utility, you can no longer use it to change your UID for the user account. Tiger also had command line utilities to modify the NetInfo database, but those have been removed as well.
10.5: Move a user's home directory via the command line
Does 10.5.5 break this hint? i've been using this hint since Leopard came out without problems. after installing the 10.5.5 patch though my moved home directory was not used. instead the default of /Users was used. i've tried to reset the moved home directory in dscl as described above but now get an error that the dsAttrTypeNative cannot be found. a cat of my user info does not show the information although the NFShomedirectory is set to the proper directory.
FIND command clarification
Thanks so much for this System Preference heads up. Exactly what I needed for a distinctly different problem.
Two things that users should be aware of:
1. In certain situations the ";" portion of the find command needs to be "escaped" in order for it to be visible to the command. You'll recognize the situation because find will complain that there's "no terminating ';' or '+'." I'm this case you need to enclose the ";" in single quotes, as in:
2. Depending on the number of files associated with the old UID, this command can take a very long time (way longer than a permissions repair, for example).
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