Can't Create User Account

I'm using 10.5.8, logged in as an Admin, and can't create a specific new user account. The system had this account on it previously, but the account was deleted by another Admin. I'm trying to recreate the account, but it's not working. If the home folder isn't there, OS X does create it, but doesn't add the user to the list of users. Logging out and attempting to login with the account does not work. I can create other accounts, but not recreate the one that was deleted - regardless of which Admin account I'm logged in as. Any suggestions?

Have you run the disk utility program? Press "commandshiftu" to open up the Utilities window and run the disk utility and the directory utility. Also, if you have a copy of "Disk Warrior" sitting around trying running that.
Also, check under Computername/users/deleted users, if your username shows up in that file, or on that path, please trash (back them up if you need them) said files, and empty your trash while holding down the "alt/Option" key.
It may be that parts or all of the user account are still intact, try logging in via the "Terminal" application, press "commandshiftu" to open up the Utilities window then open the program "Terminal"
Type "login USERNAME" where "USERNAME" is the name of the user account.
You will be prompted for a password, enter your password for the account.
If the password is wrong, or the username does not exist, an error message, "Login incorrect" will print on the terminal.
If you log in correctly, the username displayed will change to said username. If that happens, you need to remove the user account before recreating said account, follow instructions below to remove and recreate said account.
If you have your install disk, boot from that and change the password for "root" to something you know, write this down. Boot as normal and open the application called "Terminal"
Type "login root" then enter your root password,
first try removing the user account you are trying to create type "rmuser USERNAME" where "USERNAME" is the name of the user account you are trying to create.
Then use the "adduser" command to add the user account you want to make, type "adduser USERNAME" where "USERNAME" is the name of the user account you want to create, then type "passwd USERNAME PASSWORD" where "USERNAME" is the name of the user account you want to create and "PASSWORD" is the password you want linked to that user account. After you finish all of that, type "logout" and then quit the program.
Try to login to your new user account.
If you get any error messages please post.

Similar Messages

Can you create user accounts in LabWindows applications?

I need to be able to create password protected user accounts for my LabWindows application. I say there was a password control. Are there any other built-in functions in LabWindows to create and maintain user accounts for an application? Any add-ons?

CVI does not integrate native functions to tailor an application based on a user account, you must design and code this section on your own.
As an help in this matter, CVI offers a password control to permit a user to enter a password with the usual, asterisk-masked input field: where and how to store passwords and what to do with them is on your responsibility.
As an additional help, I have created a small sample project to permit hashing a text (e.g. a password): since hash does not permit to decode back the original text, you can safely store the hashed text without special precautions (OK, we're not designing a banking application, aren't we? ); to check a password entered by the user you only need to hash the password and compare the hash with the original, saved one: if they're the same, then you can permit the user to log in. Despite it's quite old (developed in CVI7), that sample still works correctly in newer IDEs: I have tested it in 2012SP1 without problems.
Proud to use LW/CVI from 3.1 on.
My contributions to the Developer Zone Community
If I have helped you, why not giving me a kudos?

Can I create user accounts in the Ipad?

I share my Ipad with multiple people and want to keep my emails and docs private.
Thanks.

No, the iPad is basically a single user device, and it can only have one set of apps and content on it. Some apps may allow you to protect their content (but most don't), and for Mail there is this work-around.

Creating User Accounts So I Can Set Parental Controls?

My nine year old son loves to use YouTube to watch video game videos and apparently there are NO parental controls or any kind of filters on YouTube. The majority of the ones he finds are ok but there's about 15% that are just plain shocking even to me. Its pretty sad the things that people put up there. I hate to have him never be able to get online again so I want to set some sort of filter where I can block content according to keyword but I just cant figure it out at all. So I tried to set controls over the whole MacBook but it tells me that as administrator I cannot. I cant figure out how to create non-admin users though. Searched all the forums and guides, etc. but no answer.
Thanks, so in summary, I just want to know how to create user accounts if thats the right term.
I am using a MacBook, running Mac OSX version 10.4.11.

Hi
Apple menu (top left hand corner) > System Preferences > Accounts. Click the lock to authenticate. Just above the lock are two icons; a 'plus' and 'minus'. Click the 'plus' icon. Enter the name of your son, tab down into the next field and that should autofill for you with the information you placed in the name field; tab down again and enter a password; tab again to key in the password again; don't tick the box that says "allow user to administer this computer"; click 'Create Account'. You should be prompted with a window asking if you want to leave automatic login on or if you want to turn it off - turn it off. You'll see why later on. What you should see after this has finished is in the left hand window at the top your account details with your name and underneath it should 'Admin' and below your account details will be your son's. Underneath his name it should say 'Standard'.
Click on his name to select it and now click on the Parental Controls tab on the right hand side of that window. You should now have the option to enable and configure control for the 5 applications listed there: Mail, Finder & System, iChat, Safari and Dictionary. Explore and configure to your hearts content from there. When you are happy quit out of System Preferences and select Log out from the Apple Menu. You should now be presented with the Login Window displaying not only your account but also the newly created one for your son. Log in s your son and test to see if what you've set as a control has worked. Keep going backwards and forwards between the two accounts until you are happy.
Bear in mind there is only so much you can do.
It's virtually impossible to block everything potentially morally harmful without basically stopping your son from having any access at all. You could look at supplementing Parental Controls with the built-in filters in your router - if you have one? If you don't then consider getting one. I'm struggling to think of a router for residential use that does not have some sort of built-in web filter?
The tab button is the key immediately to the left of the 'Q' key. It will have an arrow going from left to right printed on it.
Tony

Access Denied creating user accounts through vba

Hello,
I have a MS-Access application that runs on a Windows 2012 server. My customer logs into the server using RDP. The MS-Access application is started up automatically by means of the environment variable in the user settings. The customer needs to be able
to create new windows users for this application, simply by clicking a button.
The VBA script to create users works, because when I start up the MS-Access application with my own logged on Administrators account, the new users get created. If my customer tries it, he gets 'Access Denied' error. I have added his user account to
the Power Users group, but that did not solve the problem. I also tried to make him member of the DCOM Users Group, the 'Access Denied' error remains...
I do not want to give him administrator priviliges, because he is 'just a customer'...
What do I need to do for this setup to work? I tried altering some DCom settings, but frankly I do not have enough knowledge to feel comfortable with this. Hope anybody can help me out here...
best regards, Rob

Is this a standalone server? Only administrators can create user accounts, so there is no work around for that. You could look at something that has the administrator account/password stored and launch PSEXEC or something else in an elevated session behind
the scenes but that is a security volunerability because the credentials are stored.
If the account is being created in an Active Directory environment you could delegate permissions to the appropriate OU for your customer.
Mark B. Cooper, President and Founder of PKI Solutions Inc., former Microsoft Senior Engineer and subject matter expert for Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS). Known as “The PKI Guy” at Microsoft for 10 years.

If I have 3 family memebers sharing the same account, can we create sub accounts to seperate their log in and they have access to music already purchased?

If I have 3 family members sharing the same account, can we create sub accounts to seperate their log in and they have access to music already purchased?

There is no such thing as "sub-accounts".
Multiple Apple ID's can be used on a single device.
Created unique Apple ID's for each user and use those Apple ID's on the appropriate devices from iCloud and iMessage. This will not affect the media on the device.

Creating user accounts with OIDDAS and use them from the OS

Hi,
I have a customer that is experiencing an error creating user accounts from OIDDAS, and use that user accounts from the operating system.
My customer is using OID/OAS4OS 10.1.4.2.0, and that version is not longer available to download, then, I will try in my own environment
with OID/OAS4OS 10.1.4.3.0.
And the question is the following: is supported to create user accounts with OIDDAS and expect that users can work with OAS4OS and be
able to authenticate in the operating system?
For the reference, SR# 7222351.993:
Thanks,
Luis Vivero.
Edited by: LV in ORCL on Dec 11, 2008 6:47 AM

Hi Jacco,
I didn't see your post before.
Nop, unfortulately I don't have a document with that. I just received that answer
from development (related to the plugin for AD that is not certified, and DAS is
not intended to work with OAS4OS).
Anyway, about the plugin to work with AD, this is working for me; at least I tested
it by configuring the plugin, I configured synchronization, the mapping file, I did
the bootstrap, and the accounts that were bootstraped now shows the OS attributes
on DAS.
Regards,
Luis Vivero.

Can't "see" User account name in the GUI anymore ...

Hello Community
    Using WS2012 I created user account in AD. I right clicked a user account and chose "Move".
    The problem is my finger slipped and hit other keys.
    Now I can't see the user account anymore.
    When I run the following command:
        get-aduser -filter 'Name -like "user1"' I get the results below:
            DistinguishedName : CN=user1,DC=<DomainName>,DC=<SomeName>,DC=us
    The problem is how can I "see" what folder name, OU or the group's name that user1 resides at in
the GUI?
    Thank you
    Shabeaut

If I understand well, you were able to get the user DN. Based on the name, the user account should be directly under your domain (Not under an OU or a Container). So, use ADUC and select your domain. Once done, you should be able to see the user account.
This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.
Ahmed MALEK
My Website Link
My Linkedin Profile
My MVP Profile

I can't create an account on HP Web Service

I have just bought an Photosmart 7510 and want to use the ePrint Center but I can't create an account. I try using my normal email account = error. I try using my email account printed from the Web Service Report in the printer = error.
Any ideas to succeed?
Rgs Martin

Hi Martin, the problem here might be that you have created an online account with a HP service e.g. Snapfish some time in the past and when you've tried setting up the ePrintCenter account the password you've selected to use with the email address ifs different to the combination you used in the past. This is an issue that has cropped up on the forum before. Take a look at this post and see if this works for you http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/ePrint-Print-Apps-Mobile/I-am-having-problems-getting-into-eprint-becau...
Best of luck.
If my reply helped you, feel free to click on the Kudos button (hover over the "thumbs up").
If my reply solved your problem please click on the Accepted Solution button so other Forum users may benefit from viewing the post.
I am an HP employee.

What do you use to create user accounts?

I have used Passenger to create my school's user accounts in the past. Since upgrading to Mavericks Server 3 I can't import the user accounts from Passenger. Does anyone know of a program that will create user accounts for 10.9?

I downloaded the Passenger 4.2 beta and was able to export a user list that included passwords that I could import into Workgroup Manager 10.9. The format of the export file has changed for 10.9.
The old format:
0x0A 0x5C 0x3A 0x2C dsRecTypeStandard:Users 39 dsAttrTypeStandard:RecordName dsAttrTypeStandard:AuthMethod dsAttrTypeStandard:Password dsAttrTypeStandard:UniqueID dsAttrTypeStandard:PrimaryGroupID dsAttrTypeStandard:Comment dsAttrTypeStandard:Expire dsAttrTypeStandard:Change dsAttrTypeStandard:RealName dsAttrTypeStandard:NFSHomeDirectory dsAttrTypeStandard:UserShell dsAttrTypeStandard:PrintServiceInfoXML dsAttrTypeStandard:HomeDirectory dsAttrTypeStandard:HomeDirectoryQuota dsAttrTypeStandard:MailAttribute dsAttrTypeStandard:Keywords dsAttrTypeStandard:FirstName dsAttrTypeStandard:LastName dsAttrTypeStandard:JobTitle dsAttrTypeStandard:OrganizationName dsAttrTypeStandard:Department dsAttrTypeStandard:Building dsAttrTypeStandard:PhoneNumber dsAttrTypeStandard:MobileNumber dsAttrTypeStandard:FAXNumber dsAttrTypeStandard:PagerNumber dsAttrTypeStandard:EMailAddress dsAttrTypeStandard:Street dsAttrTypeStandard:City dsAttrTypeStandard:State dsAttrTypeStandard:Country dsAttrTypeStandard:PostalCode dsAttrTypeStandard:Picture dsAttrTypeStandard:SMBHome dsAttrTypeStandard:SMBHomeDrive dsAttrTypeStandard:SMBProfilePath dsAttrTypeStandard:SMBScriptPath dsAttrTypeStandard:WeblogURI dsAttrTypeStandard:IMHandle
ppiper:dsAuthMethodStandard\:dsAuthClearText:123456:2200:1026::::Peter Piper::::::::Peter:Piper:::::::::::::::::::::
The new format:
0x0A 0x5C 0x3A 0x2C dsRecTypeStandard:Users 46 dsAttrTypeStandard:RecordName dsAttrTypeStandard:GeneratedUID dsAttrTypeStandard:AuthMethod dsAttrTypeStandard:Password dsAttrTypeStandard:PasswordPolicyOptions dsAttrTypeStandard:UniqueID dsAttrTypeStandard:PrimaryGroupID dsAttrTypeStandard:Comment dsAttrTypeStandard:Expire dsAttrTypeStandard:Change dsAttrTypeStandard:RealName dsAttrTypeStandard:NFSHomeDirectory dsAttrTypeStandard:HomeDirectoryQuota dsAttrTypeStandard:UserShell dsAttrTypeStandard:PrintServiceUserData dsAttrTypeStandard:HomeDirectory dsAttrTypeStandard:MailAttribute dsAttrTypeStandard:MCXSettings dsAttrTypeStandard:Keywords dsAttrTypeStandard:Picture dsAttrTypeStandard:MCXFlags dsAttrTypeStandard:SMBHome dsAttrTypeStandard:SMBHomeDrive dsAttrTypeStandard:SMBProfilePath dsAttrTypeStandard:SMBScriptPath dsAttrTypeStandard:FirstName dsAttrTypeStandard:LastName dsAttrTypeStandard:Street dsAttrTypeStandard:City dsAttrTypeStandard:State dsAttrTypeStandard:PostalCode dsAttrTypeStandard:Country dsAttrTypeStandard:WeblogURI dsAttrTypeStandard:EMailAddress dsAttrTypeStandard:PhoneNumber dsAttrTypeStandard:MobileNumber dsAttrTypeStandard:FAXNumber dsAttrTypeStandard:PagerNumber dsAttrTypeStandard:IMHandle dsAttrTypeStandard:ServicesLocator dsAttrTypeStandard:URL dsAttrTypeStandard:JobTitle dsAttrTypeStandard:OrganizationName dsAttrTypeStandard:Department dsAttrTypeStandard:Building dsAttrTypeStandard:Company
ppiper:::123456::2220:1026::::Peter Piper:::::::::::::::Peter:Piper::::::::::::::::::::

Suspect Adobe ARM creating user account

Hello
I was helping a user with a problem about 2 days ago. The problem is that everytime Windows reboots the netbook shows a newly created User Account called icsokern.
The user has a Samsung netbook, Windows 7 Starter & Service Pack 1 as well as ESET AV.
Trying to delete the account doesn't make any difference as the account is recreated after a reboot. However, securing the account I put in a password as well as changed the login time access to 0. When I try to change the applications that the user account can access I see only Adobe ARM as ticked. No other application is ticked. This leads me to believe that Adobe ARM could be creating this account, but there is no logical explanation why?
Checking for a malware reveals no alerts. No quarantined files and Windows' Event Viewer shows no alerts regarding system or application errors.
Having said the above I decided to ask on the Adobe forum to see if anyone else has had this experience and if so what did they do to fix this?
w

Latest Adobe ARM installs task in the Windows Task Scheduler.
If you see this task, can you try to disable it and check if new User account gets created?
If new account no longer created after task is disabled, you can conclude that Task Scheduler does it for some reason, which will need to be investigated.

Create user account in Child Domain

Dear all.
Kindly, i have Forest contain two domain Root domain, child domain.
in the child domain i can create a user account using the root domain.
i want to stop this. i want the IT Department there create users for there domain only?
thanks
Ashraf Hilal

Hi Ashraf,
Your query is not clear. Do you want to restrict enterprise administrators from creating user accounts in child domain?
By default, Enterprise Admins group is part of Builtin Administrators group in the child domain.
When child domain is introduced, by default Enterprise Admins group is added to Child Domain\Administrators group (Builtin local Security group).
How to Restrict Enterprise Admins From Child Domain
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16919.how-to-restrict-enterprise-admins-from-child-domain.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/a72dc036-3375-4124-9ef7-d30af104451a/enterprise-administrator-and-child-domain?forum=winserverDS
Regards,
Rafic
If you found this post helpful, please give it a "Helpful" vote.
If it answered your question, remember to mark it as an "Answer".
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no rights! Always test ANY suggestion in a test environment before implementing!

How can i create multiple accounts but use the same itunes?

how can i create multiple accounts but use the same itunes?

Hi iCloud is Making Me Go Crazy,
You will need to create a new Apple ID for your GameCenter and iCloud services. You can continue to use the current Apple ID you share with your Mom for access to iTunes Store purchases if you wish.
Using your Apple ID for Apple services
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4895
Frequently asked questions about Apple ID
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5622
Cheers,
- Judy

I just bought a new Ipad mini a while ago, a created a new apple ID "***************" , I can't download anything on apps store, it keeps on asking for a credit card but I don't have one. Can I create an account without a credit card?

I just bought a new Ipad mini a while ago, and created a new apple ID *********** , I can't download anything on apps store, it keeps on asking for a credit card but I don't have one. Can I create an account without a credit card?
<Edited by Host>

Read this:
iTunes Store: Accepted forms of payment
It is the same for the app store. You are required to have some sort of payment method in the record.
Barry

HT2731 how can i create an account to sell my music?

how can i create an account to sell my music?

iTunes - Partner Programs -Content Providers
http://www.apple.com/itunes/content-providers/iTunes - Partner Programs -Content Providers ...
iTunes - Partner Programs - Sell Your Content
iTunes - Partner Programs - Affiliates

Can't Create User Account

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for