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  1. BjarneDM

    Merge and remove user accounts?

    2/4 : any way you like : Finder, CCC, Disk Utility, Terminal When you delete a user account, you usually get several options as to should happen to the data in the account. If you choose to delete the data, sometimes not everything is deleted or the process fails and the data is left intact on...
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    How to create SSH users on OSX Lion ?

    I found a solution to your problem, but it's way too complex to give the complete solution here. In short the solution is to use the Mac OS X sandboxing fatures. I found these described in some detail in this book : http://www.apress.com/9781430227304 - the book actually has a complete example...
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    Merge and remove user accounts?

    assumptions: your account is an admin account the 120GB disk isn't used for anything at present open the Account Preferences Pane in System Utilities, click on the lock, authorize yourself and change your girlfriends account to an admin account copy your account to the 1.5TB HD log out of...
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    Prevent non-wheel user from unmounting disk

    yes - that means the enableOwnership step is un-necessary
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    Extensions in Safari

    we would very much like to know which extension you've tried to install in order to help you
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    Prevent non-wheel user from unmounting disk

    The first thing we can try to do is this : http://knowledgebase.tolisgroup.com/?View=entry&EntryID=103 Secondly, we can enable ownership on the disk. For this we'll have to use Terminal : get a list of your disks : sudo diskutil list and determine which one is your Time Machine disk - on...
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    Can't upload any files!

    please be more specific : 1) what program are you trying to upload in 2) to where are you trying to upload files 3) please specify in details the steps you are going through without this information noone is able to help you
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    Prevent non-wheel user from unmounting disk

    Question : what is your setup regarding accounts ? - are you sharing the same user account ? - are both of your accounts admin accounts ? The trick lies in understanding that normally only either the account that has mounted the disk or an admin account can unmount a disk.
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    Which shared drives correlate to which raids?

    diskutil appleraid list
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    How to create SSH users on OSX Lion ?

    This is one of the differences between ftp and ssh : the ability to limit access to certain parts of the file system. This is very hard if not almost entirely impossible to do for ssh ! The problem is every ssh-user can simply do 'cd /' and be at the file system root. From there it's a...
  11. BjarneDM

    Sharing resource of two subnets

    I suppose this will work for you - it's worth a try, but I'm not guaranteeing anything ;-) a)Set the routers up to be the same subnet. b)Then make the following changes to your network: 1) turn off DHCP in one of the routers (it's !not! a good idea to have two DHCP-servers on the same subnet)...
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    Joining partitions

    The third option is of course iPartition : http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.php
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    upgrading from libxml2 2.5, to libxml2 2.6

    try : with-xml-dir=/usr/local/include -or- with-xml-dir=/usr/local
  14. BjarneDM

    How can I install gdk on mac

    http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/GNOME
  15. BjarneDM

    Switching users, where did the bar go?

    try togling the check-box beside 'Enable fast user switching' . That usually fixes that problem on my system.
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    Mass copying preference files to user libarys

    OK - we'll have to identify all of your users and the copy the preference. I'ld use a bash script: #!/bin/bash declare -a userNames=( $(ls /accounts/) ) for userName in ${userNames} do cp -R -p ${1} /accounts/${userName}/Library/Preferences/. chown -R ${userName}:${userName}...
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    document.write and XHTML

    document.write isn't supported in proper xhtml served as application/xhtml+xml as it's very possible to construct documents that are only valid xhmtl !after! the execution of the javascript. If you are serving the xhtml pages as text/html you can still use document.write because your pages are...
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    Uploading .access files

    1) seeing .htaccess files: the '.' at the front of the filename makes the file hidden under many circumstances. That might be the reason your ftp client can't see it. 1) in your apache conf file, what options do you have for the server root ?
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    Mail server

    If you've entered an IP-number then that's very probably the problem. Don't ever enter an IP-number in a MX-record but use a fully qualified domain name.
  20. BjarneDM

    cant switch to root

    only root and admin accounts can use su and sudo by default. Thus, no normal user account is able to su to an admin account either. It's possible to mess around with the settings for su and sudo, but it's a messy approach and can really mess up the whole su/sudo thing. I'ld recommend another...
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