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I can't answer your question, but Apple is moving away from Netinfo Manager. There's probably some other new way to do what you want to do .

Thanks....that kind of sucks, other than the cool Active Directory stuff.  IT guys who drool on Windows will love it I guess.

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Light Speed wrote:

avkills wrote:

Where is it?

Is it only installed as a custom option, kind of makes it hard to have a users partition without it....

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Some of the functionality that was in Netinfo might now be found in Accounts preference pane by right clicking/control clicking on the account you want to manage.

Eh? Not working for me...

Hmmm, I'll give that a whirl, but I have since just decided to set myself up a bit different, so all will be good.

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You enable root using the Directory Utility.

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cosmicosmo wrote:

Gipetto wrote:

Eh? Not working for me...

Works for me: brings up 'Advanced Settings…' item that pops up a window with some, not all, of the items that were available in NetInfo Manager.

Only allows you to deal with GUI accounts though.

Did you notice you can finally create groups in the Accounts Pane and add users to them?  Quite nice, though again only GUI accounts.

To create a login only user go to the Sharing Pane, select something that has user logins, Click the + under the users and then select any person in your contacts list or click "New Person" - you can then add a login only user

But, in all reality, do you really need to enable the root user when your admin account has sudo rights?

I can't think of a reason, beyond super power user linux stuff, that you'd need to enable root.

Gipetto wrote:

To create a login only user go to the Sharing Pane, select something that has user logins, Click the + under the users and then select any person in your contacts list or click "New Person" - you can then add a login only user

Ah nice.  This seems a little buggy though.  I had problems with adding the same user to multiple services and with deleting, then re-adding them.

If you click new user in the Accounts pane and select "Sharing Only", this appears to do the same thing without going through the sharing pane.  The Accounts pane allows you to modify the same settings as for a GUI user, save for GUI ones of course.

Root is nice to have when doing a lot of admin only stuff.  I've also had a few things not work with sudo in the past that worked in su, though I don't remember what they were.  I almost always use sudo.

I hope it won't be a problem to set a new home path now, as I have my home on a separate partition.

pirloui wrote:

I hope it won't be a problem to set a new home path now, as I have my home on a separate partition.

Yeah, that's in the "Advanced Settings" window mentioned earlier.

Thanks