(null) users listed in Profile Manager

You can delete the "(null) (null)" user in Profile Manager for OS X Mountain Lion using Workgroup Manager by removing unknown users from the group "com.apple.access_devicemanagement" of your servers local directory.

I have this same problem, but I don't have this group in Workgroup Manaager?

The update from 10.7 to 10.8.1 seems to have wreaked a bit of havoc. It indicated that it changed server name, though it had never changed, and I had to setup DNS again. It used to be that had to be done in Server App, which no longer works with 10.8.

Thanks for the info, but there is no such group in my Workgroup Manager. My local server only has one user on it (me), and no defined groups.

The Open Directory has only 1 network user and only the default group called "workgroup".

The profile manager application now crashes whenever I use it and I suspect this is caused by accumulated garbage within whatever database it's reading (the "null" users being only the "visible" aspects of whatever stuff is screwed up in there).

Any one have any other suggestions?

I have exactly the same problems you have mentioned. My server also produces Alerts saying that the Server name has changes (even though it hasn't). The alerts go away if I run through the name change function and simply select the existing name, but the alerts come back if I make other changes to Open Directory.

I'm not impressed with the Server aspect of OSX Mountain Lion at this point.

You should open WGM on the server itself. If you are on a remote computer, you have to use screensharing to do so.

You have to look in the LOCAL groups (on top you should select "local" to make it say "Viewing local directory: /Local/Default" on top instead of "/LDAPv3/127.0.1").

Also make sure you make the system groups visible in the View menu of WGM -> "Show System Records".

Then you should find the group "com.apple.access_devicemanagement" as I mentioned before. From that group you can remove the users that have no name which will remove the (null) (null) users from profile manager.

Perfect. That did the trick. Thank you very much.

The problem was that I didn't have "Show System Records" selected in View Options. Once I set that I was able to find all the null records (strewn out in various groups).

Now that they are clean I'm hoping there will be some improved stability in Profile Manager.

Thanks again,

Ralph

I seem to have been able to fix mine by after running through the change function, turn on all services. Once I did this I then turned off the services I did not want to be running. Since then I have not had this message come up again.

I figure that the 10.8.1 update, which seems to have reset DNS caused this and by activating all the services it updated the server name.

Go figure.

Yes, this worked for me as well. Thank you. I had a lot of not found members that I deleted.

THANKS A LOT!!! Worked for me as well.....