UserManager.app dies

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From: Eric 'Bird' Fortune
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 04:37

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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

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