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Re: Broken Install?

Undercracker <email@hidden> writes:

> Is niutil a common BSD solution for user management or is it unique
> to OS X (I'm coming from more SysV-based *nix variants)? The few BSD
> variants I've toyed with in the past used standard "adduser"
> "rmuser" etc..

The whole NetInfo thing comes from NeXTSTEP; the other BSDs don't use
it. Also, you might want to take a look at nicl(1), which has a
shell-like interactive mode; the commands tend to have aliases like
"ls", "cd", "cat", etc.

> [Shantonu Sen wrote:]
>> You can also hold down "option" during boot and OpenFirmware will present
>> a boot selector.
>
> That's a big negative there. For some reason it doesn't work on my
> iBook. I can only select at boot by doing the old Command+Option+O+F.

Some older NewWorld Macs (e.g. my 3-year-old Rev. D iMac) don't have
the option-key thing; I don't remember when exactly it was added.
However, the command nvram(8) allows OF variables to be read/written
from within OS X (and, I assume, Darwin as well).

--Jed

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