[X4U] Can't add more accounts to Tiger?

Brett Conlon brett_conlon at sonymusic.com.au
Tue May 3 20:31:51 PDT 2005


I was going to suggest a restart.... It looks like OSX may still be having 
troubles with the Finder keeping up with what is going on under the hood.

A logout may have also done thr trick.

Coj



Jeff Porten <civitan at jeffporten.com>

On May 3, 2005, at 11:15 PM, Jeff Porten wrote:

> Erase-and-install of Tiger, minimal system mucking since.  Set up 
> two admin accounts right off the bat.  Trying to add a third 
> standard account today, and it's failing.
>
> Behavior: I add an account.  On closing the entry form, the other 
> admin account is selected, but no new accounts appear.  Home folder 
> is created, owner 503, group staff.  No new users in NetInfo.
>
> Will do the restart/repair permissions dance, but I'm concerned to 
> see an error this early in the game.  Help?

Restart did the trick.  Would love to know what the heck happened, 
though.

Best,
Jeff





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