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You can use Server Preferences to edit user accounts created on your server. Users can
also edit their own accounts using the Directory application.
If your server has imported user accounts, you can use Server Preferences to edit an
account’s supplemental information in your server’s directory, but not the account
information in your organization’s directory. An administrator of that directory can edit
its account information using tools for the directory server.
Users who have administrator privileges on their own computers can create local user
accounts with the Accounts pane of System Preferences. These local user accounts are
stored on the user’s computer. Local user accounts have home folders on the computer
and can be used for logging in to the computer. Local user accounts can’t be used to
access the server over the network.
Because your server is also a Mac OS X computer, it has local accounts in addition to
server accounts and possibly imported accounts. Your server’s local accounts can be
used to log in to it, and a local account with administrator privileges can be used to
administer the server. For information about administrator privileges, see “About
Administrator Accounts,” next.