[Mono-osx] Active Directory Infinite Loop

[Eoin Norris]

is there any reason why this is an infinite loop? Someone with an AD  
account complained about a huge log file which caused a system crash  
( he said although I doubt that was the only reason). The mono layer  
seems to just keep trying to open the wapi file and keeps failing.  
Does the loop not bail out after a a number of failures and abort?

-- Eoin


On 5 Apr 2007, at 15:33, Daniel Abrams wrote:

> 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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