[MacGorilla]

I have installed Darwib on a spare harddrive on my Mac for kicks and I cannot seem to create a "normal" user. I use Netinfo to create the user:

niutil -create / /users/zizban
shell...
niutil -creatprop / /users/zizban shell /bin/bash
uid..
niutil -createprop / /users/zizban uid 501
gid...
niutil -createprop / /users/zizban gid 80

Finally, I add my user to a group:

niutil -appendprop / /groups/wheel users zizban

I logout and login to zizban but I cannot write my home direcory. ls -ld shows its owned by root. If I chmod 755 /Users/zizban, nothing changes. Any suggestions?

[Moonray]

I think you first mkdir the new user's home dir, then do the niutil stuff you did plus niutil -createprop / /users/zizban home /Users/zizban, and then you rather want to chown -R zizban:wheel /Users/zizban instead of chmod it.

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[MacGorilla]

Thank you! worked great!