chevah/compat — pull request #39 by adiroiban (2014-10-04 17:03:28+00:00)
Title: 2450 osx admin

Problem
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We want to support OSX

For now, only OSX 10.8 is supported

Changes
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We used to support OSX 10.4 on PowerPC so there were not many changes.

OSX store Unicode in a strange format.

I have also discovered that our _get_supplementary_groups was returning duplicate names... which was not a problem for other operating systems but OSX has a limit of 16 groups.

... and that pwd.getpwnam() return a structure for empty string... just like Winodws... even when guest account is disabled on OSX.

How to test
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reviewers: @alibotean

check that changes are ok.

I will create another review with changes integrated into server and will ask Laura to test the changes

a test build for OSX was run at http://build.chevah.com/builders/compat-osx-108/builds/13

Thanks!
once this hits master I will enable OSX test for all merges.