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- From: nelson@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Randy J. Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: UserManager.app dies
- Message-ID: <1e9hdkINNfi@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:20:52 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.043737.724@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Reply-To: nelson@nextwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Randy J. Nelson)
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- In article <1992Nov11.043737.724@midway.uchicago.edu>
- fo6r@ellis.uchicago.edu (Eric 'Bird' Fortune) writes:
- >
- > UserManager.app does not work but nu does work.
- >
- > I can launch UserManager as root, but when I try to modify or create
- > accounts, the app dies. If I try to launch UserManager when logged in
- > as a non-priveledged user, the app dies before even displaying the panel
- > that asks for the root password.
- >
- > Since I don't know what is wrong, I am thinking about replacing the
- > /etc/netinfo/local.nidb with the version in /usr/template... (as
- > is suggested in the manual and in NeXTanswers). Perhaps the local.nidb
- > is not the source of the problem... (any ideas??)
- >
- > There are only a few accounts on my machine - what will replacing
- > the local.nidb folder do to these accounts? To my printer and FAX/modem
- > setup? What do the files in local.nidb do anyway?
- >
- > BTW NetInfoManager works but HostManager does not (dies right after
- > launching).
- >
- > Thanks in advance,
- >
- > - eric fortune
- > fo6r@midway.uchicago.edu
- > no NeXTmail
- >
-
- In UserManager under the beta version of NextSTEP 3.0, if you choose
- "User Record / Open User ..." and the directory that is specified as the
- GroupHome in /etc/nu.cf did not exist, UserManager dieds immediately. I
- don't know if this is still the case under the new NS3.0, but I would
- suggest checking to make sure that the directory specified in /etc/nu.cf
- for GroupHome and is an existing directory, and if not, change it to an
- existing directory.
-
-
- --
- -Randy Nelson
- Workstation Support Manager
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Email: Randy.Nelson@Rose-Hulman.Edu
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