Can't log in as admin

I normally have 3 user options upon log in.. ( A, B, C) I log in as the (A) admin. I went for a coffee and closed the macbook while some applications were still open in admin.. When I came back I opened the screen to be confronted with user B's start up log in option. I can get in using B's password but it has limited admin rights. I have tried to target the HD onto another comp but it opens up B's log in every time . How do I get back in to admin. ??????? or ...Why has it done this??? This is rather urgent as I have data on there for a meeting.Thanks, Jeff.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9) intel core 2 Duo
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9) intel core 2 Duo
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9) intel core 2 Duo

To reset the administrator password using the Mac OS X disc:
Insert the Mac OS X Install disc and restart the computer.
When you hear the startup tone, hold down the C key until you see the spinning gear.
When the Installer appears, choose Utilities > Reset Password.
Follow the onscreen instructions to change the password.
Quit the Installer and restart your computer while holding down the mouse button to eject the disc.

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Before this problem (on our intel Xserve, OS X Server 10.5.3) we used 'admin' + the password to use Screen Sharing and to log in to the File Server.
We used these services: File Server, Web Server, Mail Server, Printer Server.
Only the Web Service is working now, probably because it's not dependent on passwords etc.
After a Software Update (for Quicktime) and a re-start, we can't log in.
Using the name 'root' and the same password as the 'admin' let's us into the server, but this doesn't work for accessing the File Server.
When we log in as root, and start up Server Preferences, it says there are multiple errors, and there are no users in the Users options
The system.log is full of stuff like:
(org.openldap.slapd[1828]): Exited with exit code: 1
(org.amavis,amavisd[1829]): Exited with exit code: 1
How do we get things back to normal?

Pretty cool script here that will do what you're asking and more:
http://www.adx-consulting.com/en/downloads.html
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I restored my Macbook Pro and now I can't log in as Admin - it says there is an error with FileVault and I don't have access - plz help! thank you.

I had to restore my Macbook Pro from Time Capsule yesterday and now when I go to log in as my usual Admin, it says there is a FileVault error and my access is denied. I created another temporary Admin acct, but everything I had on my desktop, etc is "gone" I can look up the "drive' or wahtever it's called, but I can't access any of it. All I want to do is log back in as my usual self (the regular Admin) - plz help! Thanks. p.s. I"m (obviously) not that computer savvy!

Triple-click the line below to select it:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Directory Utility.app
Rght-click or control-click the highlighted text and select
Services ▹ Open
from the contextual menu.* The application Directory Utility will open.
In the Directory Utility window, click the lock icon and authenticate. Select the Directory Editor tool in the toolbar. Select Users from the Viewing menu in the toolbar, if not already selected. Select the affected user account in the list. On the right is a list of properties and values. Select the property "HomeDirectory" and delete it by clicking the minus-sign icon directly below the property list. There are two such icons in the window. You want the one on the right, not the one on the left.
CAUTION: Do not click the minus-sign icon on the left, below the user list.
Then click the Save button in the lower right corner of the window. Quit Directory Utility.
CAUTION: There is no "undo" in Directory Utility. If you make a mistake and delete something in the Directory Editor that should not have been deleted, restore your whole system from a backup and start over. I have no other help to offer in that case.
Try again to log in as the affected user. If you can log in, you should find a file in the home folder with the name of the user and the filename extension "sparseimage" or "sparsebundle". Double-click that file. A disk image should open. Copy your files from that disk image to restore them.
I strongly suggest that you deactivate legacy FileVault in the Security & Privacy preference pane, then log out and log back in. Consider activating FileVault 2 if you want that kind of security.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). Open a TextEdit window and paste into it (command-V). Select the line you just pasted and continue as above.

2.1 Upgrade can not log in as Admin

I upgraded from 2.0 to 2.1
ran the update.sh
verified the version
When I go to log into the Webadmin using my adin login, I only get
access to "end user" features.
What file contains the admin login information on the gms server ?
Also, what does the previewfeature script enable ?
Steve

Thanks - YES - root does work ....
The Admin section of the configengine.xml has not changes and I can see
the 2 users who have admin rights.
The web interface comes back with the message :
Invalid user name or password
I'm using GW authentication
For now I'm ok as long as I can manage GMS
Steve
Andy Konecny wrote:
> In article <aupFw.4404$[email protected] m>,
> Steve wrote:
> > When I go to log into the Webadmin using my admin login, I only get
> > access to "end user" features.
>
> Can you get in as the root account of that user?
> Are you using LDAP or GroupWise authentication?
> The documentation on the topic should point you in the right
> direction.
> Https://www.novell.com/documentation...gwmob2_guide_a
> d min/data/admin_con_admin.html
>
> and if you are still stumped, post more details.
>
> I believe the Previewfeature represents some of the new functionality
> that has been added, but isn't quite finalized yet. Specifically I
> believe it is the First Look support for the Microsoft Outlook client.
>
>
> Andy of
> http://KonecnyConsulting.ca in Toronto
> Knowledge Partner
> http://forums.novell.com/member.php/75037-konecnya
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Can't log in to admin page

I haven't logged in for awhile, but I thought I was able to log in with my imanager credentials before. After checking that option from the "Launch iFolder Admin Console", I'm still prompted and the admin password isn't working. This is version 3.7 on OES 2.2 (SLES 10.3).
Should I run the simias-server-setup?
Thanks.

Could you go thru this doc and configure iFolder http://www.novell.com/documentation/...stallconf.html .
It helps other if you post back after your attempt.
>>> zenking<[email protected]> 19-05-2011 01:36 >>>
I haven't logged in for awhile, but I thought I was able to log in with
my imanager credentials before. After checking that option from the
"Launch iFolder Admin Console", I'm still prompted and the admin
password isn't working. This is version 3.7 on OES 2.2 (SLES 10.3).
Should I run the simias-server-setup?
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Can't log on to tomcat admin, HELP PLEASE!!

Hi All,
I am trying to log into the tomcat admin tool but it just won't work. I have created a username and password in the tomcat-users.xml file but I still can't log into the admin tool can anyone help. PLEASE
Howerd

This is really a question which should be directed to [email protected] mailing list.
What exactly is the problem? Unusual behaviour, error messages would be usefull.
Are you able to see the admin login screen?
When you created this user, did you add the admin role?
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Admin can not log in after migration Teaming

Hello,
I did migrate Teaming 1.0.3 (SLES 10 SP2) to Teaming 2.1 (SLES 10 SP 2) on a different server according to information from this web site Novell Documentation
Everything worked with one exception admin account can not log in :(
The rest of the account works, but users are taken from LDAP.
I tried to use the old admin password as well as a new admin password set during installation Teaming 2.1
In catalina.out log I got:
WARN [http-9080-1] [org.kablink.teaming.module.authentication.impl.Aut henticationModuleImpl] - Authentication failure for zone 1: org.springframework.security.BadCredentialsExcepti on: Bad credentials; nested exception is org.kablink.teaming.security.authentication.Passwo rdDoesNotMatchException: Password does not match for user [kablink,admin]
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Best regards,
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Originally Posted by pszewczuk
Hello,
I did migrate Teaming 1.0.3 (SLES 10 SP2) to Teaming 2.1 (SLES 10 SP 2) on a different server according to information from this web site Novell Documentation
Everything worked with one exception admin account can not log in :(
The rest of the account works, but users are taken from LDAP.
I tried to use the old admin password as well as a new admin password set during installation Teaming 2.1
In catalina.out log I got:
WARN [http-9080-1] [org.kablink.teaming.module.authentication.impl.Aut henticationModuleImpl] - Authentication failure for zone 1: org.springframework.security.BadCredentialsExcepti on: Bad credentials; nested exception is org.kablink.teaming.security.authentication.Passwo rdDoesNotMatchException: Password does not match for user [kablink,admin]
I think that something has gone wrong with the admin account password after the migration but I do not know how to fix it.
I tried to change the password for the admin account directly in the database table but I do not know what hash algorithm is used by Teaming 2.1
Does anyone encountered such a problem?
How can I set a new password for the admin account directly in the MySQL database?
Best regards,
Piotr Szewczuk
I **think** that hash is specified in the installer.xml file. Try also to post your question on the kablink forum: Installation, Configuration, Customization

Can't log in to any other user account except admin

I have one computer (out of a lab full of 36 computers) that has a problem creating additional accounts beyond the first.
I can set up multiple other accounts (either admin, standard, or managed accounts), but I can't log in to any other accounts except the admin account. Here's what I do:
1. When the computer was unpacked I set up the admin user, and automatic login of the admin user using the usual Apple first run setup windows.
2. In System Preferences -> Accounts, I click the lock and enter my admin password so I can make other accounts. This works fine.
3. I create an account and give it a password (I've tried blank passwords too).
3a. The system warns me that automatic login is turned on (set to the admin user currently). I click the "Keep Automatic Login" button. The other account is now created and all looks well; I can see it's home folder in the Users folder.
4. I switch to the Login Options view, and choose that other account from the automatic login popup menu.
4a. The system prompts me for the account password. This is where the problem happens.
4b. On 35 of the computers, this works fine. One 1 computer, the system warns me that "You did not enter the correct password for your user account." I can click OK there, but nothing I enter for the password works.
I also tried logging out from the admin user, and I simply can not log in to any other account. I've tried one letter passwords; I've tried blank passwords; I've tried variations on account names; I've tried all-caps; I've tried all-lowercase. I can log in to the admin account with no problems; I can set up as many other accounts as I like, but I can't use any of them.
Any ideas? Should I just wipe the hard drive and re-install? That's certainly a viable option, but it's baffling me why it's only this one out of 36 computers having the problem.

Smells like a corrupted OS installation. Two options. Erase & Install or hook it up to a good machine, via target disk mode, and clone the booted machine, using something like Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper!, etc., after erasing and reformatting the calcitrant machine, and see if that fixes things.

Exchange 2013 - Admins can only log into one ECP server

Simple run down of my environment:
• Two AD sites (Site1 and Site2)
• One 2008 R2 domain controller at each site (DC1 w/ FSMOs and DC2) running AD forest function level 2008 R2
• One 2012 Std server with Exchange 2012 Std CU3 at each site (EX1 and EX2) – CAS/MBX on both, No DAG
• Half of mailboxes on each server
Using https://webmail.domain.com for all of our internal and external virtual directories. Adding /OWA or /ECP will get you into the respective site from either internal or external.
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https://webmail.domain.com/ecp
or
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Use the following link to open this mailbox with the best performance:
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Date: 2/18/2014 10:37:42 PM
s ECP or the https://webamil.domain.com/ecps ECP.
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– https://webmail.domain.com/ecp
– https://webmail.domain.com/ecp
Why can an admin with no mailbox only log into the ECP on EX2? What is forcing the login to EX2 only? How can I move that “forced login” to EX1 if we ever get into a situation where EX2 is having problems? What happened in Active Directory or Exchange that
made EX2 the primary login server for ECP and OWA? My FSMOs are located at Site 1…the same location where EX1 is located. The same server that I cannot log into ECP directly.
~Rick

Any admin that is mail enabled can then only log into the server that hosts his mailbox. Admins without mailboxes can only log into EX2. And again, all admins can log into https://webmail.domain.com/ecp unless one of the servers goes offline
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Yesterday's change that MS Support had me do was to delete the ExternalURL for the ECP virtual directories. No difference. So, my latest update from MS Support that requested me to try today's change...
set-owavirtualdirectory “owa (default web site)” -RedirectToOptimalOWAServer $false
After performing an IIS reset and making sure replication had completed there was no difference. So, I am now forced to wait till Monday for MS to respond if the pattern stays at one email per day.
Has anyone with multiple servers at different AD sites been able to log directly into the either server like I'm trying? I get this problem in my labs and I even had MS, while on the phone, remote in to make sure I was setting it up properly.
The guy on the phone never said if their labs do the same thing cause they don't have multiple AD sites in their labs. In my lab if I have two servers at each site then I can log into both servers at the site, but not the other site. It appears it becomes
site dependent then.
MS has taken numerous logs and they are acting like this is the first time they've seen this. Yet I can reproduce it with no problem time after time. I'll create new VMs and start all over from scratch and make this happen every time I create a new AD/Exchange
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of the box.
~Rick

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Hello there!
As the title says, I basically can't do anything right now, and BC support hasn't really been able to help me when I asked about this previously here in the forums (when the website was still active, which it now no longer is). When trying to log onto the Admin console all I get is: "ERROR: This site is currently unavailable. For more information please contact: (My name)." And yes, I'm the administrator. I created the website using Adobe Muse and published it using that. There has been no other party involved, except for Godaddy.com where I bought the domain.
Unlike I've been told it should be, I do not get and never got a form to fill in my payment details upon logging onto the admin console.
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As I'm not very used to doing the whole setup of a website, I definitely don't want to spend that time again, but simply just want to pay the overdue invoice!
Help is very much appreciated!
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Hi Alex,
Please submit a ticket via the following form and we will escalate it to the accounts team: http://www.businesscatalyst.com/contact
However, I can see that the site you may be referring to is set to bill the partner directly. Therefore you will need to log into the admin console of this site as the partner user, and you will then be prompted with a payment form to pay the outstanding invoice. It appears that [email protected] is the partner user assigned to this portal, so please try logging in as that user.
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I have installed CF10 on an Amazon AWS Windows 2012 instance. No matter what I use for the admin console password during setup, the password is not recognized when setup is complete and I try to log into the admin console. I've uninstalled and reinstalled four times trying simple as well as complex password with no luck.

Try to login from your machine rather than server itself with different browsers.
Also, run the passwordreset.bat(C:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\bin) and try to change the password. Then login.
HTH
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Using Business object XI, I have a VB 2005 .NET app that works fine when logged on with admin privileges, but fails otherwise. I've investigated and traced this down a single line of code which is the rep.PrintOut function.
The debug error report is shown at the end of this message.
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Hello Steve,
Thanks for the feedback. Since this appears to be a permissions issue there's one other thing to check. When the merge modules are installed there's often an option to install for "me" or for "everyone." Make sure the files are being deployed for everyone.
Here are links to some RDC and .NET documents as well as the Statement of Direction for the RDC. I'm not sure if you'll actually be able to pull them up though. Some documents require a login for the Service Market Place in order to view them. Hopefully these will work without logging in.
[Using the Report Designer Component in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f0751a7f-a81d-2b10-55a0-e6df0e1bab6d]
[SAP Note 1217809 - Is the Report Designer Component supported in the .NET development environment?|https://bcp.wdf.sap.corp/sap/sapnotes/display/0001217809]
[Crystal Reports Report Designer Component - Statement of Direction|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/80bd35e5-c71d-2b10-4593-d09907d95289]
I hope you're able to track down the permissions issue!
Sincerely,
Dan Kelleher

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how can i stop apple software update (asu) from constantly bugging me when i'm not logged in as an admin?
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what's worse is if it downloads an update and the install fails because you're not an admin, asu downloads the whole file again when you do log in as admin. these files should be cached in a temporary folder in asu's 'program files' folder until the install is successful or a newer version is available.

freakin' awesome! of course, i never saw that scheduled task because it only shows when logged in as an admin, and apple is the only program i have that has its schedule there rather than in its own interface.
now that i have seen this it seems stupid that so many programs don't have their updates scheduled there.
i have not tested it as such but i have a task in my limited account that only runs when i'm logged on so i know that this will work. i also changed the schedule from a set time weekly to ‘at logon’ so it will actually get a chance to run.
edit by online?:
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Can not log into server computer with any accounts - "You are unable to login to the user account "abcdefg" at this time. Logging in to the account failed because an error occurred."

I have a Mac mini running the latest version of OS X and Server. Been running fine and flawlessly. However, I had a strange problem with the iCloud preferences panel crashing when I tried to access it, so I rebooted. Now I can not log into the system with any accounts. My master admin account (along with all the others) gives me the error:
You are unable to login to the user account "abcdefg" at this time. Logging in to the account failed because an error occurred."
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ACL found but not expected on Users
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ACL found but not expected on Users/.localized
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ACL found but not expected on Users/Shared
Repaired "Users/shared"
ACL found but not expected on Users/Shared/.localized
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Got everything to re-install and it worked fine...for a few hours. Then I came in to find ALL of my network users deleted. Just GONE. Then found out the Open Directory was trashed and was unable to open, recover or restore from a backup. Looks like I may have a bad drive here.
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