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Triple-A Player
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 90
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Aliasing users
How do I make two users with the same uid? This was always easy to do under Linux, are there any caveots under Mac OS X?
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Major Leaguer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 441
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Code:
#!/bin/sh
##
# addalias
# This script will create aliases entries in NetInfo
# author: gatorparrots <gatorparrots@mad.scientist.com>
#
# usage: addalias [username] [alias]
# [alias] can be a local user account or an e-mail address
##
username=$1
alias=$2
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
printf "usage: addalias [username] [alias]\n"
printf "[alias] can be a local user account or an e-mail address\n" >&2
exit 2
fi
# Need to be a sudoer to add aliases
sudo -p "Please authenticate to add alias (administrator password): " printf "" || {
echo "Abort: could not authenticate" >&2
exit 1
}
if [ -z "`niutil -read . /aliases/$alias 2> /dev/null `" ]; then
sudo niutil -create . /aliases/$alias
sudo niutil -createprop . /aliases/$alias members $username
echo "Alias created"
else
sudo niutil -appendprop . /aliases/$alias members $username
echo "Alias added"
fi
echo "$alias --> $username"
niutil -read . /aliases/$alias
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Triple-A Player
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 90
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Email alias?
That would just be an email alias, no? I wanted a full "login alias," same uid, diffrent login names.
Jeff |
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