Re: [MLUG] Panther 'ShortName'/Unix username & ActiveDirectory volumes.

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Nobody responded, but in case anybody cares, I've confirmed (at least 
tentatively) that the "Short Name" was indeed the problem.  I created a 
new account with the short name "cepelc" and transfered all my files and 
prefs over to the new account, and now it saves the username & password 
in the keychain and asks me which volume I wish to use (as it should do).

No *nix solution have I tried for the permissions problems which I just 
compounded by pulling files from one profile to the other and then 
deleting the old user (and archiving).  I'm a bit afraid to use a *nix 
solution as I'm not sure which permissions certain files are 'supposed' 
to have i.e., 'system' and the like.  I'd use recursive and I might get 
the wrong thing.

//Christian

Christian M. Cepel wrote:

> Has anyone else had the experience that the keychain in panther will 
> not save the username and password (er, it will save it, but it won't 
> use it) for a remote server/volume if your username for that volume is 
> different than your shortname?
>
> Actually, I don't know that this is the real cause.  I've just been 
> unable to get the OS to stop asking me for user/pass and teasing me 
> with the option to 'save user/pass to keychain' each time I try to get 
> into our remote server.  My boss' pawprint & pass are saved in her 
> keychain and she need only Go->"Connect To Server" and click connect.  
> Her ShortName (her unix username) is the same as her pawprint.  Mine 
> don't.  They are 'Thistledowne' and 'christian'.
>
> I've tried desting the user/pass entry, and manipulating it in 
> Keychain Access, but no go.  On my machines it asks me for the 
> password for 'THISTLEDOWNE' and 'CHRISTIAN' respective to the 
> shortname.  It has the proper domain, though I don't know where it's 
> pulling that from.
>
> Does anyone know a work around?  If not, is there a mac util or 
> terminal command that will allow me to change my 
> shortname/unixusername?  I tried once to just create a new user and 
> copy the contents from one user directory to the other, and it has 
> played holy hell with my machine ever since.  Ownership is 
> fragmented.  I daily have to go in and change ownership to 'christian' 
> and group to 'admin' and apply recursively for different portions of 
> my drive.  It's keeping me from running most Automatic updates, doing 
> some installs (like my copy of Garage Band), and getting Imovie, Idvd, 
> iphoto, etc reinstalled.  It's a bear.
>
> Thanks!
>
> I should state that I've no more evidence than this that this is the 
> cause of the problem.  It's the only difference I see between my two 
> machines and my boss' machine.  I've had problems with Keychain 
> forgetting, or corrupting passwords in the past before the switch to 
> Active Directory.  I even had problems storing user/pass in windows 
> mappings to said server if the login name was different than the 
> windows login name in win2k before the server and my machine were 
> switched over to Active directory and my OS to XpPro.  The cause could 
> be something completely different, but since it was a glaring 
> difference I thought I'd follow this theory first.
>
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