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Bug #262: Cannot create or delete accounts

Kind bug
Product WinSwitch
When Created , updated
Status closed
Reporter Greg Hurrell
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Description

From a user email:

"With WinSwitch 3.1 installed on Tiger 10.4.1, I can neither create nor delete accounts. To do this, I have to uninstall WinSwitch. Dual 2 GHz G5. If I get time, I'll try it on my laptop tonight.

I don't do this often enough to know whether this happened in 10.3 or a previous version of the software."

Comments

  1. Greg Hurrell

    For what it's worth I can't see how WinSwitch would prevent you from creating or deleting accounts. It doesn't patch the system in any way. If you look at the source code (available for download on the website) you'll see that it doesn't write to the NetInfo database, it only reads from it, and it doesn't make any other changes to your system.

  2. Greg Hurrell

    Changing assignment to reflect my new email address.

    https://wincent.dev/a/news/archives/2006/05/change_of_email.php

  3. Greg Hurrell

    I'm marking all WinSwitch issues closed seeing as I personally no longer use it, and in fact haven't for around 4 years now.

    WinSwitch addressed a real problem with the initial implementation of Fast User Switching in Panther (released October 2003), namely, the excessive screen real estate that it chewed up. Apple fixed that problem in Tiger, if I recall correctly, which came out in April 2005 (or if I'm wrong about it being Tiger, then it was definitely fixed by the time Leopard came out, in October 2007).

    With this change, most of the justification for WinSwitch's existence went away, at least for me. So that's why I'm going to close all these tickets: I can't really support something that I don't use myself.

    But it's open source, so if any one wants to tackle any of these issues and submit patches, I'll be happy to accept them.

  4. Greg Hurrell

    Status changed:

    • From: new
    • To: closed
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