[Mono-osx] Active Directory Infinite Loop

[Daniel Abrams]

I appreciate this, it is at least some workaround, unfortunately in
most cases these settings seem to be only available to a user with
administrative rights, and having to manage each of these settings
individually for each user on each machine would be a non-starter for
most institutions, as they use LDAP and active directory to avoid this
sort of management.

But, its at least useful for getting started on a developer machine,
so much appreciated, thanks!

In general, I remain of the opinion that this needs to be fixed before
Mono is useful as a general deployment environment on OS X, but I
understand those who don't have users with active directory accounts,
don't have an issue.



On 4/5/07, Jaume Llardén Prieto <jllarden at aim.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's a workaround: define the UID and GID in Directory Access.
>
> The whole process is:
> Open Directory Access in Applications/Utilities, select Active
> Directory in panel Services and press Configure. In the Advanced
> Options, choose tab Mappings and choose a mapping. For my test I
> chose UID to map to postalCode, UGID to primaryGroupID and GGID again
> to postalCode (I needed a numeric attribute to play with and
> postalCode was good enough). Then bind and you're done.
>
> I chose low values: uid=4055, ugid=513 and ggid=4055. And my
> 'test.exe' worked. Without this workaround I suffered the described
> problems.
>
> The catch is that you have to change the uid/gid of the home
> directories of the affected users locally on every Mac.
>
> Kind regards
> jaume
>
> On 4 Apr 2007, at 17:11, Daniel Abrams wrote:
>
> > uid=435092441
> > gid=1309106314
> >
> > On 4/4/07, Eoin Norris <e.norris at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > If you are running on an active directory account what is your gid
> > and uid - the result of ( as you prob. know) typing id in the
> > terminal?
> >
> > -- Eoin
> >
> > On 4 Apr 2007, at 15:57, Daniel Abrams wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 4/4/07, Eoin Norris < e.norris at mac.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Well, my application is generally home-based but I would kinda think
> >> 15% of all users high, though it may be 15% of all macs deployed
> >> across  "schools, colleges, companies, government" but whatever about
> >> schools macs in the enterprise are extremely rare. So the total of
> >> all macs is lower.
> >>
> >>
> >> Perhaps.  I worked for Apple in what was the Enterprise and
> >> Education divisions, and I think my numbers are pretty
> >> conservative, but maybe the ratio has shrunk.  I can tell you that
> >> one of my current clients is a large government agency, and macs
> >> are not as rare as you might think, and they all use active
> >> directory authentication.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> It is an issue for deployment as well. I am getting reports in the
> >> field. I dont know specifically where to look in the Mono code
> >> ( where it is happening) but the thread below ( taken from this list)
> >> gives some examples. The original poster does not seem to be on the
> >> list anymore, or not contributing to this new thread on the same
> >> issue, but might be available on that email address.
> >>
> >> http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-osx/2006-January/000444.html
> >>
> >>
> >> He clearly did some research and ascertained that it was an Apple
> >> bug.
> >>
> >> I can't say if its an Apple bug or not.  I could certainly believe
> >> that POSIX threads are done differently in Mac OS X than in Linux,
> >> and that the Apple implementation is incomplete or buggy, I don't
> >> have much experience in that area.  But I do know that in higher
> >> level environments, Java, ObjC, etc, thread and process management
> >> work fine on OS X and that many other development and deployment
> >> environments have managed to solve threading issues without dying
> >> early on Mac OS X.  Unless it's solved, it effectively rules out
> >> Mono development for us, but I understand that your mileage may vary.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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