ARD admin password

ARD is is password protected. If I open up ARD it automatically bypasses this password entry window so I never have to enter it. (via Keychain I presume)
If I open up my Keychain I can view the password.
However if I try to change the password via:
Preferences > Security > Change Remote Desktop Password...
it doesn't recognize the "old password" and I've tried other possible passwords too.
What are my options here? i'm moving to a different computer soon and I know ARD will ask for this password eventually and I'd rather not have to recreate all of my list.

weird, it gave me an error that the password wasn't correct but i went back into keychain and it changed it in the keychain. i then tried the new password in the same "change password" preference and it worked.

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ARD admin password will not hold

I recently had to have my MacBookPro replaced under warranty. I cloned the hard drive from the old machine to the new. All good except a few apps needed to be re-registered. ARD on the other hand will not hold/remember my password. I accepts the password and I can use ARD but the next time I launch it it requires the password again. Any ideas about how I can get the password to hold?
many thanks
Mark

Yeah!.. thanks Dave. I now always run as a standard user. I logged on as Admin and entered the serial number and it held! Great. Thank you. It is the only app I have which had done this so far. Most just ask to authenticate. Weird that it did not protest, just did not do it.
thanks again
Mark

ARD Admin Question

Hi everyone,
I have a few clients using ARD Client (configured sucessfully).
I have two questions:
1) Can Clients pull up the Chat Window to initiate a Chat Session with the Admin (Me)
2) Should I login to each Client's system using their username/password (aka user account) - or should I create a Universal Administrator UN/PW to access Clients from my ARD Admin console. And if the latter, what's the best way to do this.
Thanks in advance

1)
In System Prefrences, Sharing, Remote Management, Computer Settings, if you check "Show Remote Management Status in menu", then regardless if your observing them or not the user can click on the menu, and see what ARD administrators are online. they can use that menu to request to chat with said ARD admin.
On the ARD computer it pops up as a request to chat in ARD.
I seem to remember some settings in ARD for client initiated chat.
if you uncheck Show Remote managment status in menu bar, and you uncheck show when being observed. Then the client will not show the menu for remote desktop; making it much harder for a user to try and start a ARD chat.
2)
The easy thing to do, is to have one account, witch is deticated to ARD access on every computer. That way you don't have to know every user's name, and paassowrd and you don't loose access every time a user changes their password. I keep the user name the same. For added security you could use a diffrent password for each machine; but then you need to keep track the password.

Mountain Lion, ARD Admin, and Screen Share Issue

We recently upgraded one of our Labs to OSX 10.8.2. The guy who teachs in that Lab then brought to my attention that he can no longer share his screen with computers in the Lab which are not logged in. If the machine is sitting at the Login screen he cannot share to them until after the students login. Control works fine through ARD, but not sharing. All clients have ARD version 3.6.2 installed. ARD Admin is version 3.6.1 and I can replicate in other buildings/locations.
Attempts to share with a 10.8.2 machine (one or many) which don't have anyone logged in will by all indications in ARD look like the sharing is happening on the Administrator machine, but you can visually see the screen is still sitting at the login prompt. The display on the machine to be controlled flashes for a second when the Admin clicks Share and it flashes again when the Admin unshares their screen. The same test run against a 10.6.8 client(still have a group in th next lab over) doesn't have the same problem.
My initial thought was this may be some sort of feature, but I don't see any where to turn it off. I've searched around, but I don't think I'm searching with the right terms for this issue. Any thoughts?

I've never been able to share my screen to computers that no one was logged in on; and i've been using ARD sense Mac OS X 10.4. I'm not saying it hasn't been possible; I've just never been able to get a computer to do that.
My work around is use send unix command as user root. I have a unix script that basicaly triggures and applescript to type a user / pass to login of a generic account. it takes about a minute to run. and if some one is logged in, it dosen't do any thing to that computer.
Heck it can even be set to be the default send unix command. so all the the user has to do is select all computers, click send unix, and click send.
Some thing like this:
if [[ "$(who | grep console)" == "" ]]; then osascript -e '
tell application "System Events"
keystroke return
keystroke "a" using command down
keystroke "PASSWORD"
keystroke tab
keystorke "a" using command down
keystroke "USERNAME"
keystroke return
keystroke return
keystroke return
end tell';
fi

Just one ARD Admin Refused

Here's a strange one ...
I have ARD Admin on 3 Macs, on the same network.
Two of them can connect to a client, One cannot.
As all the passwords and setup IS correct, why would One ARD Admin NOT connect to just on ARD client with: 'Authenticaton Failed....' ?
The target Mac has a FULL Blue light on it in all ARD Admin's.
I've checked/repaired the KeyChain on the ARD Admin Mac with the issue.
All three ARD Admins can connect to all other ARD clients.
Just one ARD Admin cannot connect to just on specific ARD client, it can connect to all other ARD clients fine.
It's something local to the one ARD Admin Mac?
But what?
I've done the whole dlete computer thing on the ARD Admin to no avail, and deleted the Scanner entry too...
Thank you,
ARD Admin Macs are on OSX 10.9
ARD Admin is v3.7.1
ARD Clients are various from v3.4 upwards
This one ARD client is v3.4 (but there are others that are OK with ARD client v3.4, and like I say other ARD Adin can conenct to it.)
Message was edited by: James Rothschild

Hi James
I've seen this at a site I support that had recently upgraded to Mavericks. I subsequently discovered that at the time they did the upgrade they were having some slight/strange network/firewall issues which they'd ignored. These in fact had contributed to the problems they were having after the upgrade.
My 'fix' was to clear out the caches and then disabling remote management on the client workstations that were having the problem. These were then rebooted and remote management was then re-enabled. I'd deleted the misbehaving clients from the All Computers list in ARD Admin first and re-added them after the reboot and re-enable.
This may not be applicable for your location but I endeavour to make things easy for myself by always enabling the remote login (SSH) option in the deployment build. That way I can quickly and easily connect to affected clients and either run a script or series of commands that 'fixes' pretty much most problems I come across.
HTH?
Tony

Unable to install "Mavericks" as it asks for my 'Admin Password" and it does not work. Have not used it since I got my iMac in 2008. First upgrade to do so. Any solutions please?

I have a 2008 iMac which had Leopard initially and I have upgraded to each new OS without a hitch. I downloaded "Mavericks" and began the install, it asked me for my "Admin Password" which I have never ever used since I set the Mac up, I have it safely tucked away so entered it, it rejected it each time. Am sort of lost now, as if my "Admin P/W" does not work here can I go from here?
I have seen many others with this problem but so far most of the solutions seem to be for the "log in" or "User" password not the Admin one.
I am running Mountain Lion successfully.
I have my original disks as supplied and also a Snow Leopard install disk.
I have seen some info about fixing this via Lion Recovery partition which I must have due to using Mt Lion.
How can I repair this situation.
Thank you to all those who respond.

Thanks for your reply.
I have visited both the sites you listed but it seems to me that the solutions mentioned are to fix the User or log in p/w's.They do not seem to refer to the admin one again.
I understand about it being just like other user accts but the fixes do not really refer to it only the above two.
I have no problem booting up my Mac, I do not use a log in p/w so my problem is with the Admin p/w that was set up back in 2008. This is what I need to reset etc.
I am quite confused over these pw's as to just what is what and I need to make sure I understand all before I get into deeper trouble following these links.
This Admin p/w that was set up has never been used and is the only p/w I have except for my Apple ID. All previous upgrades only required my user name log in which has no p/w set up.
I hope you can follow me here butI have read so much on this it is becoming very confusing about whcih p/w's are what.

Can anyone help. For security reasons I reset my admin password on my Macbook Pro a few days ago and didn't write it down. Now I've forgotten it. I didnt receive an installation disc when I purchased my Macbook Pro online - it didn't come with one-help

Please see question above, but also note, I have the Applecare Protection Plan but am unable to get through to anyone on a weekend and I desperately need to use my laptop this weekend. I can't log in at all now as I've forgotten my admin password. A few weeks ago I also changed the password on my husband's new MacBook Pro and again forgot the password. I spoke to someone at Apple and they helped me to reset it within minutes, by restarting the computer holding Command+something else (I can't remember what it was). A black screen with writing came up and I had to type in something like "password" (not sure exactly). Anyway, this was a very quick and efficient process but I didn't write it down unfortunately. Does anyone out there know what to do? Thanks in anticipation

Forgot Your Account Password
For Lion/Mountain Lion
    Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
     When the menubar appears select Terminal from the Utilities menu.
     Enter resetpassword at the prompt and press RETURN. Follow
     instructions in the dialog window that will appear.
     Or see Reset a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Password and
     OS X Lion- Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password.

Someone gave me a q 4 I need to set admin password what do I do I do?, someone gave me a q 4 I need to set admin password what do I do I do?

some one gave me a Q4 and I need the admin password... what Do Ido? ( he doesnot remember the password it belonged to his wife and she died...}

Reinstall from install DVD.
That is the only safe thing to do with a used computer.
Allan

Admin password won't work to install software

I'm trying to install Photoshop and when it gets to the point where it asks for the password, I enter it but the password box just disappears for a second and returns asking for the password again. (I entered it several times with the same result each time.) I'm certain that I'm entering a valid admin password and that permissions for the applications folder are set to read & write for admin and system. Just to be sure I tried entering the password incorrectly and the box shook as it normally would when an incorrect password is entered. Has anyone had a similar problem with Adobe products or installing any other software on Lion?
Also, I just installed Adobe Lightroom last night and it worked just fine. And when I just tried to run the Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool which also asks for a password and I'm having the same problem. So I know that it's not just Photoshop but I don't know if it's just something to do with Adobe or maybe all software which requires an admin password to install.
Trying to repair permissions and run a virus scan now although I think these two options are unlikely to fix the issue...

It looks like repairing permissions did the trick.

Why can I not disable the guest user in the 10.8.2 update? I have never enabled the guest user, but after the update, it was automatically enabled with a "managed" tag. It is not selectable even after entering my admin password to unlock the options.

Why can I not disable the guest user in the 10.8.2 update? I have never enabled the guest user, but after the update, it was automatically enabled with a "managed" tag. It is not selectable even after entering my admin password to unlock the options. I was able to select the account under "parental controls", but again, could not delete it. Why Apple? Why?!!????

SOLVED Ok. I actually was able to disable it. I had to actually log in as the guest user to make it accessible in the preference window. Then I disabled it and logged out. Apologies if this was obvious for some people, but I have had some sort of issue with something every update since Snow Leopard.

I can't remember my admin password for one of my iMacs. I'm locked out! What are my options?

I can't remember my admin password for one of my iMacs. I'm locked out! What are my options?

Resetting an account password

New MacBook Pro - admin password Help

There is no start up disk w the new MacBook Pro. I recently changed my admin password when it goes to sleep. Must have hit a wrong key, possible w me....nothing is working. I have to reset it. I was going to register my Mac, had it for a few days, sending this from my iPad. Please, please help

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
To reset the password, there's a different method in Macs with OS X Lion and Mountain Lion, because you don't need any discs to do it. Follow these steps > http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4101 Note that you will need to create a new keychain after resetting your password

Admin Password Change

After Updating Admin Password Do we need Run Any Other Utility to Sync The Password.
Thanks
Raghu

No, Admin tool is sufficient. Did you change the password in online mode? If you change it in offline mode then you need to restart the BI Server.
Thanks,
Venkat
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How to change default admin password on Cisco Aironet 1040

How do I change the default username and password on the Cisco Aironet 1040. There is a default set and I want to change that to secure the device. I've checked the manual and can't seem to find the directions. Any ideas?

Hi Brian,
If this AP is already registered with a WLC then you can change it via WLC.
In WLC GUI, go to Wireless -> Select the AP -> Credential -> Override Global Credential-> Update username/pw/enable pw
In WLC CLI, you can configure it like this. If it is for all APs, then select all, otherwise AP name.
(WLC3) >config ap mgmtuser add username admin password Cisco123 secret Cisco123 ?
all Applies the configuration to every AP that does not have a specific user name.
Enter the name of the Cisco AP.
(WLC3) >config ap mgmtuser add username password secret
(WLC3) >save config
Are you sure you want to save? (y/n) y
If it is Autonomous AP you can configure using the "username xxxx password xxx" IOS command
HTH
Rasika
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After recovery, admin password filled in with "dots" and cannot delete or change it

Hello.
I ran the Windows 7 updates yesterday, but only the necessary ones. I did not install any of the optional ones. After the updates completed, I turned the computer on and it was stuck in a loop cycle - starting windows, then the admin password log in box came up. The box was fiiled in (with "dots" but too many to represent my password) and the screen just quickly flashed back & forth between the log in screen and "password incorrect". I tried to switch user, and it flashed back to the admin log in.
I did a system recovery to factory defaults (after backing up all data) using the recovery discs. After recovery, the "Set a password for account" screen comes up with the box below "Type a password" filled in completely with dots. I cannot erase them with the backspace or delete keys. If I highlight it and then try erase it with backspace or delete, the cursor just moves to the right hand side of the password box, but it still doesn't delete the faulty password "dots" so that I can change it.
I tried to reboot by holding in the power button and then turning it back on. After selecting country & language again, the same password screen come up.
It is stuck! Any help would be greatly appreciated! I computer I have is the HP TouchSmart 310 PC 1155-Y.
Thank You!
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That is curious with a Recovery. First, try to reset the password using NTPassword. Make the CD, boot to it following the directions. If that does not solve the signon problem, consider installing the OS from a regular Windows 7 disk of the same version, using the key from the COA sticker.
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