re filepro login

[Fairlight]

At Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 04:08:35AM -0400 or thereabouts, 
suspect Richard Kreiss was observed uttering:
> 
> I seem to remember that fp installed a filePro user with no login privileges
> . Am I remembering incorrectly?

As I remember it from the last time I did an install where the fP install
created the user rather than me pre-creating the user (last done on linux),
I believe the filepro user was created with a valid shell and no password.

I just can't swear to it.  Like I said, 99% of the time I'm doing
migrations and the user is moved with the rest of the user accounts before
any software is installed...that's just the order I use.

Should be easy enough to test...just get the demo and install on a linux
box or VM.  I just can't be arsed to do it...I'm not -that- interested in
how it does it, when I almost always micro-manage it by hand anyway.

Speaking of VM's...  I've been touting VirtualBox (formerly by Sun, now
re-branded Oracle since the sale) as a great VM solution for a while.  I'd
skipped upgrades for a while because sometimes it's a little touchy and
wants a reboot after reinstalling its sub-drivers--and I hate rebooting
because I have one of the longest boot sequences I've ever seen in Windows
(27 systray icons, and that's not even indicative of 3rd party services
that run but have no systray icon--even on a 3GHz/3GB machine, it takes
5min+ to get FULLY loaded to idle).  Well, anyway...I updated to the latest
a few days ago.  This was a -great- upgrade.  For one, it didn't require
any reboot.  But the best part is that, while there was always a CPU count
option, it's now actually supporting multi-core!  Before it would always
only use one of my two cores.  It now uses both cores...and the performance
is actually better than 2x an improvement in boot speed of the guest OS.
There was another good improvement, but I can't remember what it is at the
moment.  The downside to upgrading?  If you formerly used VirtualBox before
the re-branding, you'll need to update all your shortcuts you may have
made, as the re-branding from Sun to Oracle changed the location of the
executable, as well as the location of the guest additions ISO image.  Not
the end of the world and takes under a minute to fix all of it, but still
annoying, all over a name.  But...well worth the irritation to get full
multi-core support at last!

mark->
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