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• You cannot drag and drop items across different instances of Account
Manager. For example, if Account Manager A on system 1 and Account
Manager B on system 2 are both being displayed on the same
workstation, then you cannot drag and drop between Account Manager A
and B.
Workaround: Use the copy/paste feature to copy users, groups, or
templates from Account Manager A to B.
• Restriction: Two system administrators should not run two different
concurrent instances of Account Manager.
Workarounds: Account manager correctly allows two or more system
administrators to work on the same password files simultaneously. The
proper file locking will occur and new accounts can be added or modified.
However, the local groups file, /etc/group, and the NIS groups file,
/var/yp/src/group, are written out after each group modification.
Therefore, the last system administrator to make a change in a group’s
view window would overwrite any prior changes from a different system
administrator. For this reason, running multiple, concurrent Account
Manager instances is not recommended.
• When running Account Manager from a terminal window, occasionally
the following message might be written to stdout:
Warning: DtComboBoxWidget: Unable to find item to select
Workaround: None. You can safely ignore these messages.
4.2.1.3 Account Manager Problems
Leading and trailing white space is not stripped from text entry areas. This
could lead to confusion, for example, if a field on the Find dialog box
contains a space character before the desired search string. The search string
would not match because of the spurious space character.
4.2.1.4 Enhanced Security Account Manager Problems
The following problems apply to Account Manager when running on
enhanced security systems:
• The Lock/Unlock Toolbar and Menu Options are inactive for the
Template views.
Workaround: Change the template lock setting on the Create/Modify
Template dialog screen after selecting the template by double clicking on
the template icon in the Template view icon box.
• The C1Crypt Encryption Type restricts the password length to between 6
and 8 characters even though the Password Controls’ Minimum Length
and Maximum Length fields imply otherwise.
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