On Mar 26, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Jerry L. Blackmon II wrote:
So again, where are these problems I've supposedly created for
myself? I mean besides the decision I made to use Apple technology
because it's supposed to, you know, just work. As with more than a
few of the posts on this list, I've found, yours is long on snark
and short on beef; I've seen your mouth and know where it is, but
sadly you've put no money there. Perhaps you should have dropped
this one in /dev/null before you wasted time sending it.
Hi Jerry,
Well, for number 1, the password corruption problem is one I have
never seen and I'm pretty sure that if you gave more details about it,
then you would get help and perhaps solve the problem. But the whole
paragraph is a complaint about OS X changing the name of the user home
folder. I also think the current behavior is a better option. And at
the end you say you let your users create their own accounts, that is
probably why you are having problems, and can be solved with better
policies.
Number 2 doesn't make any sense, those passwords are not synchronized.
And again you don't provide any details.
Number 2.5, well, you can't do that unless you go in the terminal and
change the name of that user's password hash from its own GUID to the
admin's GUID. I wouldn't consider this a problem, and if you are going
to do that, be very careful. And use a script that you tested before.
So, what did you want to get out of sending that email to this list?
Don't expect to vent and get help. Explain your issues in detail,
don't mix iCal issues with Open Directory issues unless they are both
involved to the problem you want solved. Use different emails, and
maybe even different mailing lists for each problem. And be polite,
don't shout. It's pretty easy actually.
