Be careful when you do this. The first user you set up on a Mac has
special administrative powers that are difficult to duplicate after
the fact. I don’t remember if Mac OS X will let you delete this user
or not, but trust me, it would be a Very Bad Thing™ for there to not
be a user with ID 501 on your Mac.
Walter
On Sep 5, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Heather Kavanagh wrote:
It’s
still there, but it’s not used, and eventually I will delete it.
I have had odd things happen if there wasn’t a user with the
numerical ID 501. Your mileage may vary. IDs get assigned in the
order the accounts are created, starting at 501. There are countless
other IDs below that threshold, and there are hard-coded defaults in
the OS to keep them from showing up, except within NetInfo Manager
and other admin-level tools.
Walter
On Sep 5, 2008, at 1:01 PM, WebWorker wrote:
Walter
Are you saying The first Administrator account is different to
other Administrator accounts you create in OSX?
On 5 Sep 2008, 4:18 pm, waltd wrote:
Be careful when you do this. The first user you set up on a Mac has
special administrative powers that are difficult to duplicate after
the fact.
it would be a Very Bad Thing™ for there to not
be a user with ID 501 on your Mac.
Yeah, well, that’s the newer of the two users. The migrated user will
eventually be disposed of, but seeing as there’s tons of disk space
available we haven’t noticed it!
