[captiva]

If we have set up shared access to a partition on a Mac for 3 users...by using Users to create the user accounts and NetInfo to create a new group for those users and allowing read/write on the partition for that group...

is there anything we can copy/paste to dupe those settings on another Mac in the network with a shared partition?

Or do we have to reinvent the wheel every time... create new users, create a new group.

thx
cap

[pat++]

nidump/niload are your friends...

Open terminal,

On the first Mac :

nidump passwd . > passwd.txt
nidump group . > group.txt

Copy passwd.txt and group.txt files on the new Mac, open Terminal and :

sudo niload passwd . < passwd.txt
sudo niload group . < group.txt

For further information, see manual pages :

man nidump
man niload
man niutil

(the examples above assume that the files are created/copied in the users'home directory.)

[captiva]

thanks, I will take a look at the man pages.

When you say:

nidump passwd . > passwd.txt

...do you mean I should literally type in a period and a right chevron (.>)? Or is that a placeholder for something that Terminal does.

Terminal newbie here...

cap

[Terri]

I would add the path to your desktop so that you can find the files easy.

The user on my Mac is "create" so it would look like this,
nidump passwd . > /Users/create/Desktop/Upasswd.txt

Instead of this
nidump passwd . > passwd.txt

[Gul Banana]

A period and a chevron, yes.

[pat++]

Originally posted by captiva:


...do you mean I should literally type in a period and a right chevron (.>)?

Yes. You can copy/paste the lines as is.