[rescue] Bondi-ng

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Sun Jul 22 15:52:18 CDT 2007


Micah R Ledbetter wrote:
> The other thing to note is that a lot of stuff normally configured  
> in /etc is inside NetInfo. /etc/passwd, for example, does exist but  
> only matters when booting to single user mode. useradd and such do  
> not come with Mac OS X, but you are expected to use netinfo.  

OK, that's a big help right there.  Thanks.  I'll find NetInfo and poke
around.

> (Alternatively, you can use fink, which has packages useradd and  
> friends, which use the NetInfo APIs.)

Also noted.

> As always, the Rosetta Stone for Unix[0] is invaluable for "Yargh  
> where does Mac OS X do $foo ?"

Need to print myself a new copy of that.....


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