Ok, so what is the deal with bumpers and bowling? We tried to go bowling on Sunday, and our favorite bowling alley, Tropicana, was closed for a private party. No problem, we went to another bowling alley, and asked for bumpers, since we all suck horribly at bowling and having bumpers is the only way that we can all enjoy the game without sinking gutterballs.
The first place would only give us bumpers for the kids, the adults needed to have their own lane.
“That sucks.”, to quote my daughter.
The next place we went only had bumpers for kids under 8, and wouldn’t give us a lane with bumpers. What? I tried to explain that we just wanted to throw a ball at some pins and weren’t good enough bowlers to enjoy the game without bumpers. No dice.
Is it that tough to set up bumpers?
Archive for February 1st, 2005
In further attempts at reverse engineering OpenDirectory, here is the latest status report.
I’ve managed to get just about as far as I really want to go right now. I still cannot BIND to the directory without deleting my user in the local netinfo db. I suppose I could login as one user at home (LDAP) and another on the road, and give them both the same home dir.
I’ve even tried deleting the AuthAuthority setting in my local nidb, no dice. Again, what does work is to rename your nidb user entry to something else. Once you do that - Then BIND authentication works. I think there must be a flag in netinfo that says not to rely on the nidb, and to always validate the user with LDAP, if possible, otherwise fallback to the nidb cache.
You can turn on the Workgroup manager client in OS X by creating an object of objectclass apple-computer and giving it the apple-mcxflags with a value of ‘*has_mcx_settings*’ and creating attribute attribute ‘apple-mcxsettings’ with an empty string as the value. This will cause Workgroup Manager client interface to be displayed on login.
I’m still working on what is contained inside the applemcxsettings attribute, to get stuff to appear insode the workgroup dialog.
Later.
