check the ownership of your home directories.  the ownership of the files
here might not have the propoer uids/gids.

hth

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 12:06 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Com
> Subject: user/group GUI
> 
> 
> I ran into a problem where I copied the group and passwd 
> files from one
> machine (Red Hat 7.3) over to another (Red Hat 8) machine in 
> hopes of saving
> some time recreating users. Now I am unable to open the GUI user
> configuration tool on Red Hat 8 box. At that point I restored 
> the original
> files on the 8.0 box and now the same problem exists. Is 
> there any way to
> fix this short of starting from scratch? When I try to open 
> the GUI, it
> flashes open and then immediately closes.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
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