Create switch user button

can not set up 'switch user' using instructions provided friom the website.

It would be helpful to know what website you are referring to.
However, you can turn on Fast User Switching in the Users & Groups System preferences:
First, click the Padlock at the bottom of the screen if it is locked. Enter password.
Click Login Options.
Check the box to Show fast user switching menu and set the display you want in the Status menu area.

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Deploying Custom Windows 7 Logon page and switch user button

I am trying to use ZCM 11 Group Policy management to do two things. 1). Turn off the Windows 7 switch user feature that exists in the start menu and at the initial logon screen, and 2). Add a policy statement graphic to the initial logon screen in Windows 7.
Feature 1 above is done by changing 'Hide entry points for 'Fast User Switching' in Computer Configuration=>Administrative Templates=>System=>Logon. But in order to get rid of the 'Switch User' button on the initial logon screen you also have to enable 'Interactive logon: Do not display last user name' in Computer Configuration=>Windows Settings=>Security Settings=>Local Policies=>Security Options and we only want this enabled for students. There are only two options for this setting - 'enabled' and 'disabled'.
Feature 2, adding a graphic to the initial logon screen, is turned on by enabling 'Always use custom logon background' in Computer Configuration=>Administrative Templates=>System=>Logon and creating a custom bmp file placed in C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\.
Because the 'Interactive logon: Do not display last user name' setting only has enable/disable options (the default is disable) and because user associated settings overwrite workstation associations Im using two policies, one workstation and one user as inidcated below:
User GPO :
Enable 'Interactive logon: Do not display last user name' in Computer Configuration=>Windows Settings=>Security Settings=>Local Policies=>Security Options
NOTE: This allows me to differentiate between student and staff users.
Workstation GPO:
Enable 'Hide entry points for 'Fast User Switching' in Computer Configuration=>Administrative Templates=>System=>Logon
Enable 'Always use custom logon background' in Computer Configuration=>Administrative Templates=>System=>Logon
Bundle:
Deploys the bmp file to C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\.
Unfortunately, this setup only works as intended when the user is set up with a volatile DLU policy. When the user associated DLU is non-volatile it doesnt display the graphic and it does not remove the switch user button on the main logon screen. If I logon/logoff as a non-volatile user I get the generic Windows 7 logon page with the switch user button visible, when I logon/logoff as a volatile user I get the custom graphic logon page without the switch user button. Whats even stranger is that when I go into gpedit.msc and look at the settings after I log in, theyre correct for each type of user.
Does anyone have any insight on why I might be seeing this problem?
Ive tried to be complete as possible describing the problem but if didnt describe something correctly or someone needs additional info, please let me know.
Thanks for any assistance.
Dan

Hi Dan,
are you using Novell CLient?
The Tiles on the Login Screen also depend on the Client configuration. If there is only Novell CLient active Windows cannot display other tiles or switch user.
regards
MArkus
Originally Posted by dlietz
I am trying to use ZCM 11 Group Policy management to do two things. 1). Turn off the Windows 7 switch user feature that exists in the start menu and at the initial logon screen, and 2). Add a policy statement graphic to the initial logon screen in Windows 7.
Feature 1 above is done by changing 'Hide entry points for 'Fast User Switching' in Computer Configuration=>Administrative Templates=>System=>Logon. But in order to get rid of the 'Switch User' button on the initial logon screen you also have to enable 'Interactive logon: Do not display last user name' in Computer Configuration=>Windows Settings=>Security Settings=>Local Policies=>Security Options and we only want this enabled for students. There are only two options for this setting - 'enabled' and 'disabled'.
Feature 2, adding a graphic to the initial logon screen, is turned on by enabling 'Always use custom logon background' in Computer Configuration=>Administrative Templates=>System=>Logon and creating a custom bmp file placed in C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\.
Because the 'Interactive logon: Do not display last user name' setting only has enable/disable options (the default is disable) and because user associated settings overwrite workstation associations Im using two policies, one workstation and one user as inidcated below:
User GPO :
Enable 'Interactive logon: Do not display last user name' in Computer Configuration=>Windows Settings=>Security Settings=>Local Policies=>Security Options
NOTE: This allows me to differentiate between student and staff users.
Workstation GPO:
Enable 'Hide entry points for 'Fast User Switching' in Computer Configuration=>Administrative Templates=>System=>Logon
Enable 'Always use custom logon background' in Computer Configuration=>Administrative Templates=>System=>Logon
Bundle:
Deploys the bmp file to C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\.
Unfortunately, this setup only works as intended when the user is set up with a volatile DLU policy. When the user associated DLU is non-volatile it doesnt display the graphic and it does not remove the switch user button on the main logon screen. If I logon/logoff as a non-volatile user I get the generic Windows 7 logon page with the switch user button visible, when I logon/logoff as a volatile user I get the custom graphic logon page without the switch user button. Whats even stranger is that when I go into gpedit.msc and look at the settings after I log in, theyre correct for each type of user.
Does anyone have any insight on why I might be seeing this problem?
Ive tried to be complete as possible describing the problem but if didnt describe something correctly or someone needs additional info, please let me know.
Thanks for any assistance.
Dan

On unsleep, how to select 'switch user...' button using only keyboard

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Can't switch users from lock screen in Cinnamon 2.0.14

Hi! I have searched the forum and couldn't find anything that answered my question.
The expected behaviour is that there should be a 'switch user' button on the lock screen to take the user to the login manager. Unfortunately this is not the case, and the only way to use the computer is to either log in to the last used account, or do a hard reset. Is there a configuration option somewhere that will enable such a button?
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Last edited by Und (2013-12-24 04:23:11)

Hurricane wrote:
It seems as though that bug was reported a while back. Here's the link.
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/671
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Server 2008R2SP1 Domain Controllers occasionally hanging at switch user screen

The server will respond to ping, but seems to stop processing authentication requests, and has odd behavior with kerberos and LDAP requests. When you access the console, you can see the lock screen, and can get to the switch user button. When you click on
switch user, the screen goes black with a blinking white cursor in the upper right hand screen. It does this immediately, it does not seem to reboot - no BIOS or UEFI passes from the hardware.
Forcing a reboot with the power button will give you the option to start windows normally, and this seems to recover the Domain Controller. This has happened to me now on one Virtual DC and on one Physical DC. There is no common hardware between them.
I would say it looked like hardware issues based on my googling, but now that seems to be ruled out.
Has anyone seen anything like this?
Ok, some more research on event logs looks like it might well have been memory exhaustion:
The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the pool was empty. This was accompanied with many other errors. After reboot, memory use started at 98% for a while, after maybe 10 minutes dropped to 77% and after 45 minutes dropped
to 14% used.

Hi,
So what is the problem now?
You could use RAMMap to gain understanding of the way Windows manages memory, to analyze application memory usage, or to answer specific questions about how RAM is being allocated.
RAMMap
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ff700229.aspx
Regards.
Vivian Wang

Switch user screen

Is it possible to go directly from the screen saver or sleep mode to the switch user screen without clicking the switch user button? I know it's minor but I'm just curious if it's possible to change that?
Thanks

Hi,
Open windows Control Panel, open Personalization, click the Screen Saver link in the bottom right and in the following window remove the tick from the box next to 'On resume, display log-on screen'. Click Apply, then Ok to save this setting.
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User Home Directory not being created when "Create Home Now" button hit...

This is a cross post, since I was not sure where this should end up since it touches two pieces- Open Directory and User Management. Any help would be appreciated!
I am running OS X Server 10.5. All of my user accounts have been migrated over along with their home directories. Problem is that when creating new users and then assiging a home directory the system does not actually create the directory.
Currently all users are setup to have their home directory setup here:
afp://172.16.110.100/Users/'username'. The Users folder has been setup to automount, and all users that have folders can be accessed without issue.
The problem is when I create a new user, select the aft://172.16.110.100/Users option and then select "Create Home Now" button and save as it requests... it does not create the directories.
I have even tried to change the Home patch to make it local to see if it was an network issue, and used the /Users choice and it will not create the directory in that way either- both location go to the same place.
The system was obviously able to create the local admin account and directory admin account home folders without issue when the system was installed.
The permissions for the "Users" folder are as follow:
directory admin = Read and Write
local admin= Read and Write
system user (root)= Read and Write
admin group= Read Only
everyone group= Read Only
The system is in production, so any kind of server resets need to be done after 5pm, so I have not been able to reset AFP service.
Currently the only services running are AFP, SMB and Open Directory.
All users have their entire home directories located on the server, and login over Directory Access on their clients, so all user accounts are stored on the server. No one is having issues accessing their files or logging in.
I just can not create new home directories when I create new accounts.

You do not have to be logged on as the root user to do this. Launch the terminal and type-
sudo createhomedir -a
I run an XServe with Tiger server ( 10.4.11) and this has been the workaround I have been using.
Good luck.

How to create Labview User Interface with buttons?

Hello,
I try to create a user interface, where the TestStand sequencies can be selected one by one not only Test UUT, Single run and run Mainsequence (about 20 buttons needed).
I'm playing with the simple UI shipped with TS and can load the sequence file and run automatically a sequence (Main or another).
How can I create and assign buttons to all sequence files in my TS project?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks. (TS 4.0, LV 8.0)

I've modified my main VI with the below steps.
I still don't know how to create and assign front panel buttons to the user interface.
Anybody could explain to me how do I need to modify the attached part of my main vi and how to assign buttons.
Thanks.
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InteractiveArgs_2.png ‏12 KB

When I click "Create New User" itunes switches to another language

First I click "login" in itunes (everthing is in englisH0
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Please help...

down at the bottom of the front page of your music store is a little "Change Country" thingy.
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[XFCE][GDM] 'Switch user' creates new session

Hi there!
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HT1750 My iMac slowed down, then word and PowerPoint wouldn't work, then I tried to switch users and shut it down with the button on the left back and now the whole screen is white and it is frozen and dead. Please help!

iMac slowed down, PowerPoint and word wouldn't work, I tried to switch users then shut it down and now it is frozen with a white screen. Help please!

From the way you are describing it, it sounds like the HD has failed. Please look over Gray screen appears during startup for troubleshooting steps. You can also run Apple Hardware Test in Extended Mode, it may take 2-3 passes for any error codes to appear and each pass takes approximately 30-60 minutes. However either way you should plan on taking it into an Apple Store or AASP for service.

A more successful experiment in creating compositable user interfaces for Config Dialogs

A couple weeks ago I posted an experiment in creating compositable user interfaces using transparent subpanels. The approach might best be described as, "It at least was notable for being novel."
Today, I'm posting another attempt, this one along more traditional lines, and far more successful. Particularly notable: this one can do all the arbitrary composition of the last one AND it solves the TAB order problem.
This solution uses a picture control and renders N copies of a control. When the user tabs to a control or moves the mouse over the control, a real control slides into that position to be able to catch the events (update mouse over draw state, highlight for keyboard focus, handle typing, etc). When the Value Change occurs, a master array of data is updated and the picture control is updated.
This is something that has been attempted in various forms in the past, but there are two aspects of this particular implementation that make it nice:
its programmatic interface for specifying the behavior of the various objects should make it fairly easy for a user of the framework to programmatically generate their dialogs
it handles the TAB problem without flickering, something I haven't seen in other attemps
This idea spawns out of conversation about the previous experiment -- thanks to those of you who posted on various forums, e-mailed me, or, in a couple cases, showed up at my desk. That last one is not something I'm encouraging unless you work at NI... just saying. :-)
Now, this experiement has already yeilded some interesting conversation. We note that as long as controls are instantiated independent of each other -- that is, no property of one control depends upon the property of another control -- this dialog system scales nicely. But in this experiment, I implemented Radio Buttons, which interact with each other -- when one is set True, the others go False. As soon as controls start interacting with each other (such as graying out one control when a checkbox is toggled, or having expandable sections, or really complex cases like updating a graph as some options change, like happens in some Express VI config dialogs) then we start needing ways to refer to the other controls. This rapidly moves us in one of two directions: naming controls or creating references. The naming approach is definitely my preference as it fits better with dataflow and I can do some interesting effects with breaking apart some of the tree. But all of this quickly starts sounding like "Please implement a XAML parser in LabVIEW." For those of you unfamiliar with XAML, in the world of UI design, it might very well be the coolest thing since sliced bread. A XAML string would indeed fit with dataflow, and we could start building that up. I hesitate to head down this road for two reasons. One, as many have noted, there's really not a good XML parsing library written in LabVIEW that can give me a useful DOM tree. Two, that's a huge project and my gut sense is that you'd have to complete a fairly large chunk of it before you'd start seeing any return on investment. But it is worth thinking about -- I might be wrong. Wouldn't be the first time. This code that I've posted today can at least get you started on the generation side if one of you decides to become industrious.
I'm turning my attention away from this project for now... coding in G is lots of fun, and I wish I could spend more days doing it, but this has been a side project and it's time to get back to my assigned projects in text programming. Building a powerful platform for automatic UI generation in LabVIEW would be really useful -- I see lots of requests for this sort of thing, and other languages are pulling ahead of us in this domain.
[UPDATE 5/17/2012 - There is an improved version.]
Solved!
Go to Solution.
Attachments:
ConfighThroughCtrlCreation.zip ‏558 KB

Elijah K wrote:
Thanks for posting this Aristos. I would normally be one of those to go bug you at your desk, but in case I'm not the only one with this question... which particular flickering problem are you referring to? The act of switching tabs? In all honesty, I've never noticed...
When you move controls around on the screen, normally you try to Defer Panel Updates while you do that. But Defer Panel Updates has an effect on control's abilities to catch certain mouse clicks, so when you're trying to move a control to catch the mouse, you have to work a lot without Defer Panel Updates, so if you're adjusting captions, etc, to match the new location, you can see flicker as properties adjust. You can move the control off-screen, as long as you have already updated the picture control to reflect the changes. It took a while to catch all the ways that the flickering can crop up. I think I got 'em all.
Attached are the VIs saved for LV 2009. Actually, they're saved for LV 8.6, but it doesn't work in 8.6 because of a bug in the picture control that existed back then.
Attachments:
ComposableUI_LV2009.zip ‏391 KB

Unable to enable security and create admin user after reset - px4-300d

Our px4-300d became inaccessible a few days ago. I couldn't get to any shares from any machine, and I couldn't get to the admin console. When I checked the unit, there was no indication that anything was wrong (ie - the panel didn't show any failure, I didn't get any emails indicating a failure, and there were no lights offering a clue to what was wrong). However the unit was completely frozen...the buttons on the front would not scroll through the different information on the panel.
I attempted to reset the device using the pinhole on the back, but the device wouldn't respond, so I had to power it down using the button on the front. When I tried to power it back up, it would come on for about one second, then immediately power off. I pulled all 4 drives out and powered it on again without any drives. This time it came up completely and I got a message on the panel that drives were missing. I started putting the drives in one at a time and the device recognized them all and I was able to login to the admin console. However, all the shares were missing and I received an email that the Storage Pool was degraded. I rebooted the device from the admin console and when it came back up, it started reconstruction. After a few hours, it completed, but I still had no shares and couldn't create any new shares. I also did not see any of my users, including the admin account I was logged in with. I tried to create a new user, and also tried creating a user I knew existed and neither one worked. The screen would just flash but nothing would show up. At this point, I decided to try to reset using the pinhole on the back of the device to reset the admin user so I could just create a new one. So, now I'm stuck at the 'Enable Security' screen. Every time I try to create an admin account, it just flashes and returns me to the same 'Enable Security' window.
Now what?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

If you are unable to get into it you will not be able to do the factory reset. You can try booting in buy removing one disk at a time. If you are still unable to then tech support should be able to supply you with the imager and try flashing it. I would keep it at 4.0.8 also,

On screen lock screen, the keyboard does not work, switching to the switch-user screen the keyboard works again

Mac OS-X 10.7.5, Mac Air.
This began about 5 to 7 days ago.
Steps to reproduce:
Step 1:
Close the lid, or the system 'powers down', or goes to the screen saver mode.
Step 2:
Open the lid, press the power button, or what ever to wake up the Mac Air
The "Enter your password" screen is presented.
They keyboard is not responsive, I cannot type anything.
The touch pad works, I can power on/off the machine.
They keyboard is not functional.
Result: I cannot log in again.
Expected behavior: The keyboard should be working I should be able to unlock the screen.
Workarounds:
Then click on my name, or any other user of the machine and it works fine.
I can now unlock the screen and return to where I was.
Expected behavior:
I should not have to go to the "Switch User Screen" to log back in.

More detail: Some keys on the keyboard do work, ie: caps lock toggles the led, and the function keys across the top seem to work {that is I can adjust brightness, and so forth}
the letter and numbers, and perhap others do not work.

Can I create a User with Root Privileges but without UID Zero?

Dear all,
I'm working on this project and this is the task required: Create a user and let this user perform all that the ROOT user can perform but shouldn't have UID 0. I'm sincerely new to this task but I challenged myself and made so many search on Google and this is what I was able to do.
1. I created a user --- testuser1
2. I created a role --- advrole
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4. I logged out from root and login with the newly created user i.e. testuser1.
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6. In order to perform ROOT tasks when logged in with testuser1, I use su - advrole.
7. I can now do all that ROOT can do but whenever I run the id command, the advrole shows UID 0 (WHICH IS BAD FOR ME AS PER MY TASK).
My question is, I need to tell the customer that what they actually want isn't feasible in Solaris and the above is closer to what they want but I need to be sure if it's feasible or not before telling my customer?
Can anyone tell me if it's feasible and if so, how can it be done? Or if the way I did it is the only way, kindly let me know as well so that I can get back to them with a valid and concrete explanation.
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If you use auditreduce and praudit, you can get the information you need. It will show, as in my example below, that I logged in via SSH, and then switched to root after logging in. This information can be easily scripted and I do so every day in my daily report so I can see who logged in and who switched to root.
Logging in via ssh:
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subject,myusername,root,mygroup,myusername,mygroup,11448,512647774,15097 65558 MyIP
text,success for user root
return,success,0It also indicates the session ID for the SSH session, so I can monitor when that session ended too.
A different session logging in and out via SSH -
header,69,2,login - ssh,,MYSYSTEM,2010-06-03 09:16:19.380 -07:00
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