Changing a Standard User

Speaking from a vey low level of expertise here. I need to change the person who's name shows up next to the little house in the finder. Under accounts, she is a Standard User. She no longer works here and I would like the new employee to be the principal User. I am the Administrator.
When I try to delete her, the minus sign at the bottom of the Current Users pane is grayed out. When I log on as Administrator, her User Name will not highlight. It is as if her being a User is locked into the computer.

Without knowing what it is or gaining access to her account then I haven't a clue. I suggest you just wipe the entire drive and start fresh from scratch.
Short Name- OS X- How to change user account name or home directory name
I cannot tell you how to wipe the computer without knowing exactly which Mac model it is and what version of OS X you install on it.

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How i can change to standard user, an admin user

Hi,
How I can change to standard user an admin user, if the check box can not be unchecked.
I have opened the lock to allow for future changes.
I have more than one admin user.
As root user, I can't do it.
Thanks.

Hi,
I have, but looks the same, unable to change.
I finally decided to create a new standard user and delete this.
Thanks for the support.

Windows 7 Elevating using UAC, does not change the standard users setting, it runs the Admins settings

When elevating privilege for a standard user using an admin account, the UAC runs the application under the admins account "user" and not the standard users account "user", the problem is that doing so, it does not change the standard
users settings
In this example, trying to change the "Check for Updates Automatically" as the standard user, is grayed out, you have to be an admin to change this. This is a design of Java.
When you right click and run as an administrator, the option is no longer grayed out and can be deselected, however, this only changes that setting for the admins specific "user", not the standard users specific "user" the admin is elevating
privilege for. as illustrated below.
Is there a work around for an admin to run his credentials but elevate the standard users session instead of his own or some other way to set the standard users setting when admin credentials are required?

Hi,
Based on your description, I understand that you want to disable
Check for Updates Automatically option for standard users in Java.
You can achieve this target by editing
EnableJavaUpdate registry entry. For more details, please refer to following articles and check if can help you.
(Please back up before that registry operation. That will help us to avoid unexpected issues.)
How to disable Java Update in Windows
7
Disable Java updates with
Group Policy
Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft
does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
However, this issue is related to Java product. I suggest that you should contact with Java product support.
I believe we will get a better assistance there.
If anything I misunderstand or any update, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu
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Administrator changed to standard user

Hi. I'm running 10.7.5 macbook air and my administrator user has just been changed to standard user.. So can't do anything right now, how do I change this?

Triple-click the following line to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
dscl . -read /groups/admin GroupMembership
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You should get the following output below what you entered:
GroupMembership: root admin1 admin2 ...
where admin1, admin2, ... are the names of the admin users. Are any users listed besides root?

After changing a Standard-User-Account to a Microsoft-User-Account, does the OS UPLOAD (to cloud) all images in the folder used to hold all background images? Or, maybe, just the first 2 (or 20...)?

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Hi,
In Windows 8, 8.1, User can use Microsoft Account to login system. This account can be use to sync its user setting, profile, such as background, IE history. that's to say, when you login another Windows 8 or 8.1 system, If your computer connected to Internet,
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Can't change home directory for standard users (admin is OK)

I'm can't relocate home directories for standard users. Relocating works fine for admin users.
When a standard user logs in, they get a message (paraphased) saying "the home directory is not available. If it is located on a server, the server might not be online". If I change the standard user to admin, this message goes away, and everything is fine.
I created a standard user
moved the home directory using the terminal as root: mv UserName /otherlocation/UserName
I then went into users and groups, other options and changed the home directory location.
Rebooted, then tried to log in as the standard users.
Next try - Deleted the standard user and created the same user with admin rights. Followed the above steps and everything works fine.
I don't want this user to have admin rights on my system. Any ideas

Hi,
the AFP is has always been switched on. As for the path I believe this to be correct. The path I am using is:
afp://musicserver/Users
I'm not at the server right now so I mat have got the afp and : and / in the wrong order here but they are correct on the server.
This however does not seem to put the a folder in the Users folder. Could it be something to do with my external hard drive? I am using a Mac Mini as our server (not ideal but fine for us, or at least was) this is booted from our external hard drive. This is the main system drive which is where the Users data is also stored. I have tried all possible paths I can thing of from replacing the 'musicserver' with the IP address. I have also tried adding the name of the drive to the path (System) but all does not work.
Are you able to suggest anything I have missed? Perhaps I'm doing the path wrong?
Thanks again
Chris

Administrator to standard user.OOPS

Accidentally changed my user settings to standard,.i cant find a way to get it back to administrator. my computer wont allow me to make any changes. to get it back to the administrator, i no longer have permission. it wont even allow me
to go back to an earlier time, I have windows 7 ultimate with the alienware , Help

Hi,
Yes, like GTS-NJ said, You must provide the administrator to change it back and make changes for computer.
The only choice for you is to check if the built-in administrator is enabled if that account you have changed to standard user is the unique administrator account.
If the built-in administrator is unfortunately disabled, no method unless reinstall your Windows.
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Send a Unix command through ARD that will change a OS X admin user to a standard user.

I would love to send a Unix command through ARD that will change a OS X admin user to a standard user. The only thing I found close is
sudo dscl . -delete /Groups/admin GroupMembership USERNAME
which does remove the user from the list of admins, but they are still listed as an admin in the user preference panel, and can still use their account to authenticate for admin privileges.

I'm not having any problems adding or removing users from the 'admin' group by using the syntax's
dscl . -delete /Groups/admin GroupMembership ARDusername
or
dscl . -append /Groups/admin GroupMembership ARDusername
What I'm saying is if a user is ticked as an Adminstrator in System Preferences and I run the
dscl . -delete /Groups/admin GroupMembership ARDusername syntax and remove them from the 'admin' GroupMembership they still have the Administrator box ticked in System Prefs and can administer the machine.
By the way the '/' doesn't work in the syntax in ARD.
Thanks

Oracle Standard user ID Password change..

Hi Team,
Would like to know whether changing the Oracle Standard users password will have any impact..
eg: user:System , pwd :Manager..
Will changing standard user password have any impact..
If there is n impact could you pls let me know the procedure to change the password..
We are woking on SAP 4.6c, Oracle 9i, HP -unix.
Regds,
Satyanarayana N.

Hi,
Could you please let me the know the procedure to change the password using brconnect so that the changes password gets updated in the SAPUSER Table as well as Oracle dictionary..
brconnect -f chpass -o sapr3 -p newpassword.
I would like to know the complete procedure to change the password using brconnect.
Iam currently using SAPDBA
Regds,
Satyanarayana N.

I am using mac os x 10.7 and forgot my admin password. i can log in to my sons ok but he is a standard user so unable to make config changes. does anyone know hw i can reset my admin pw please?

hi i am using macosx 10.7 and have managed to forget my password being the administrator its a bit of a problem. i can, however, sign in using my son's log-in but he is only a standard user with no admin rights. any idears how i can gat my admin rights back?

http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/19/change-password-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-without-knowin g-current-password/

HT5622 can i change a guest user to a standard user?

Can i change a guest user to a standard user?

exbarre,
Just disable the Guest User, and create a new Standard User.

Cannot change admin user to standard user (2 Admin Accounts)

I have an issue that I would like some help with. When I purchased my iMac a few years ago, I created one user account and just started using my computer. I am trying to implement a few Safe Computing practices by creating a new Admin user account and changing my original user account to a Standard user.
For some reason, I cannot change either of the accounts to a standard user after I type in the password. I've logged in as both and tried to change the other user profile to a standard user, but the checkbox is greyed out on both of the Admin User accounts.
I can create a new standard user, but I have everyting set the way I like it on my current Admin user account. It would be much easier to have a new Admin User account and "Downgrade" my original Admin account to a standard user account.
Any thoughts on why the option to change from an Admin user to a standard user would be "Greyed Out"? The support articles walk me through, what should be a few simple steps, but I can not change the settings because the checkbox is greyed out.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts, suggestions, ideas....

In a way it makes sense that the original Admin Account can;t be changed. If a user changed that account to non-admin and that was the only admin account it would be a mess to undo it. I agree that there should be some indication of this and even the ability to over rider it in a case like yours.
As there isn't the next best thing will be for you to duplicate the current admin account as a new user account and then use that duplicated account.
See How to copy a user account for instructions on how to duplicate an account.
post back if you have any questions.
regards

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Find user responsible for changes in standard network

Dears,
someone else has been changing my standard networks on the project. Is there a way to find out who changed the standard network? Because I cannot seem to find it.
Kind Regards

Dear Thomas,
As per i think your req
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chandra

Can I have access to Standard Users accounts if I am an Administrator?

I run a department with 4 Mac minis. Before today they all had a generic user and a common password. Using ARD I could access all of them at any time.
Its been determined that we need to set up individual users on these machines. If the individual user changes his password, I no longer have access to the machine.
All of the users are set up as Standard Users
I have an Administrator user on every machine.
Is there a way I can open my Admin user while they are logged in? Even in Curtain mode?
Is there a way, I can see and control their desktop without their password.
I need to install, update and make changes to software on these machines, but I want them to have passwords so they can keep their private company email on there.
Any suggestions?
Im running OS 10.9
The other macs are running 10.6.8
all ARD versions are 3.5.4

Nevermind! I fixed my own problem.
Delete the computers in ARD "All Computers" (take note of the IP addresses first)
Go to the scanner and search for the IP address.
log in with the Administrator UN & PW.
You now have access.

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