Thanks to everyone for your help!
It turns out there was some illegal format in my passwd file, and I just
copied the good passwd file over the bad ones. I also needed to de-select
(from the Options -> General menu) 'Allow Duplicate User ID's' checkbox.
(from Lisa Kim at Compaq)
I am using Basic security (not enhanced) with about 30 users.
I had many great suggestions from:
Michal Bucholtz
Bobbi Spitzig
John Losey
John Nebel
Lucio Chiapetti
Lisa Kim
I really appreciate your time and support.
Other suggestions included:
1) Install latest patches
2) Check/modify the uid parameter in the /.sysman/Account_defaults file
3) Check 'setld -i' for installed X resources, uninstall and reinstall
OSFXADMIN425
4) Use NIS on one server only
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anderson.Mary.B
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 10:38 AM
> To: 'tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov'
> Subject: dxaccounts - adding users
>
> I am maintaining three alpha servers, and would like to use the dxaccounts
> program for user maintenance. This is not a problem on the main server,
> but on the two test servers dxaccounts has some problems. First, it does
> not list all users in the /etc/passwds file. Second, any new user added to
> dxaccounts is given the user id of 200, which has already been assigned in
> the passwds file. Also, users added through dxaccounts do not show up in
> dxaccounts one the program has been closed and re-opened. I have gone
> through the man pages and compared all related files for dxaccounts on the
> server that works and the two that do not, any I cannot find any
> differences.
>
> The previous administrator did not like the dxaccounts GUI, and may have
> just copied the passwds file from server to server. Any suggestions would
> be appreciated! All three servers are on version 4.0d.
>
> Thanks!
> Mary
> andersmb_at_sodak-gaming.com
Received on Fri Jan 21 2000 - 21:10:57 NZDT