Re: HEADS-UP: PostgreSQL update

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:43:53 +0900, Jonathan Perkin 
<sketch%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> * On 2010-12-19 at 14:43 GMT, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Adam wrote:
> > > * PGUSER shell has been disabled (was /bin/sh): the user doesn't need
> > > a shell; before the user showed up on login screen on Mac OS X.
> >
> > This is annoying. The normal way to create administrative users for me
> > was always to su pgsql and use ident auth.
>
> We need to find some way to disable this on OSX, same happens for cyrus -
> it should be possible to have a valid shell but not appear in the login
> screen, like the 'root' account, hopefully.

(I can only access MacOS X 10.4, so cannot test completely).
Could you try following? 'cyrus' user disappear from login screen?
% sudo dscl . -create /users/cyrus Password '*'

If so, following patch may resolve this issue.

Index: user_darwin/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/sysutils/user_darwin/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 Makefile
--- user_darwin/Makefile        27 Jan 2010 20:30:24 -0000      1.9
+++ user_darwin/Makefile        23 Dec 2010 12:24:28 -0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.9 2010/01/27 20:30:24 joerg Exp $
 #

-DISTNAME=              user-20071026
+DISTNAME=              user-20101223
 CATEGORIES=            sysutils
 MASTER_SITES=          # empty
 DISTFILES=             # empty
cvs diff: Diffing user_darwin/files
Index: user_darwin/files/useradd.sh
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/sysutils/user_darwin/files/useradd.sh,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 useradd.sh
--- user_darwin/files/useradd.sh        29 Oct 2007 08:12:55 -0000      1.3
+++ user_darwin/files/useradd.sh        23 Dec 2010 12:24:28 -0000
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@
     dscl . -create /users/$user NFSHomeDirectory "$homedir"
     dscl . -create /users/$user UserShell "$shell"
     dscl . -create /users/$user Comment "$comment"
+    decl . -create /users/$user Password '*'
 fi

 if ! nireport . /users/uid=$uid uid 2>/dev/null &&                     \

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