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Re: Root User


  • Subject: Re: Root User
  • From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:39:59 +0100

Le 27 mars 2014 à 17:16, Luther Fuller a écrit :

> On Mar 27, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Philip Stokes wrote:
>
>> (do shell script "/usr/bin/id -u") = “501”
>
> This seems to work, but I can't verify the meaning of "501" despite much time trying to Google this.
>
> [...]

Hello Luther,

Mac OS X conventionally creates the first GUI user with uid 501, the second one with uid 502, and so on.

No hidden meaning thus, just a convention. ;-)

Axel



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