[X-Unix] Re: Leopard Short Name Issue

Jon Boone ipmonger at delamancha.org
Wed Jan 23 06:33:15 PST 2008


On Jan 22, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Richard Hartman wrote:

> =======================
> Jon Boone wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Richard Hartman wrote:
>
> >> The issue: The main admin account on this machine (LONG name
> >> "Richard") has become associated in some way with TWO "short  
> names",
> >> "rjh" and "richard".
>
> >What happens when you try the following:
> >% dscl . -read /Users/rjh
>
> I get LOTS of stuff with the expected info on the "rjh" account
>
> >% dscl . -read /Users/richard
>
> This produces... zilch:
>
> $ dscl . -read /Users/richard
> <dscl_cmd> DS Error: -14136 (eDSRecordNotFound)
>
> Thanks for the effort Jon; but, no joy...

   Does the following produce any output about "richard"?

% dscl . -readall /Users




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