Disable login passwords?

Is there a way to not have to use passwords when you turn on the computer? I dont need a password and dont really want to use one unless i have to.

You only have to enable automatic login. To do it, open System Preferences > Users & Groups, and press the padlock at the bottom left corner of the System Preferences window. It will ask you for your user account password, so type it.
Then, choose Login Options in the left sidebar and choose your user account next to "Automatic login", so you will not be asked for your user account password when you turn on your computer.
You need your user account password to install applications and give permissions to system processes, among other things. It is quite important to have one in order to prevent security problems

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How do I disable login password?

I am having heaps of trouble with an annoying login password that I cannot disable. I have followed all directions and still it persists. what do I do now any one know?

There is a Log in password for a reason. So anyone turning on your computer can't use it or look at your files without knowing the password. To disable the use of it means that everyone walking by you Mac can start it up and view your personal data and files.
So what is the be problem typing in a password when the system starts? You will still need to type it in when you are installing software or making system changes.
Good Luck & Best Wishes.

Trying to disable login passwords.

I know most people want to have as secure a computer as possible. However, in my case, it would be beneficial to allow user switching without having to input a password (it's a long story). I have fast user switching set up and don't at all mind the login screen. But is there anyway to disable the need for these passwords? Granted, I wish to maintain the administrator password so I am the only one who can change system preferences and such. Any suggestions?
Thank you.

I don't think there is a way to disable passwords. If there was, that would be a good way for a hacker to compromise a Mac.
If you really want to make passwords irrelevant for non-admin users (you can do it for admin users too but it would not be a good idea), why don't you just use a password (on all those accounts) that everyone can remember, like 1234.

How can a disable the password required to login?

I have a new Macbook Pro retina display. I am the only user of the computer, and I would really like to be able to open and use my computer without being asked for my login password everytime. I have searched this forum for the answer, but I am more confused now than before? One of the answers says to simply go to "Security & Privacy" > General and simply uncheck the box in front of the line that says "require password ***** after sleep or screen saver begins". They even show a screen shot clearly showing this box. The problem is that on my Macbook Pro, when I go to this location, there is NO box in front of that line! There is a small window where I can choose between "immediately - 1 hour", but that is it. Am I doing something wrong? Does anyone know how I can turn off this prompt for the login password?
Thank you!
Lincoln

Try this...
System Preferences > Users and Groups
Choose your username then click on "Log In Options" below
Next, turn "Automatic login" to ON then supply the password to your account
Then, in the "Security & Privacy" Section, make sure "Disable automatic login" is OFF

Completely disable login with my Skype account and password

I have set up my Microsoft Account to use two step authentication. Is there any way to completely disable login with my Skype account and password? Otherwise the additional layer of security would be wasted. I have changed my Skype account password to a very strong one, but still...
Mod edit: [Title to reflect a separate Topic]

kpkmohomed wrote:
hello sir/madam,
I'm using my skype everyday. but unfortunatly today i cant login to my skype. my skype id was kpkmohoed.once i ytry to login to skype i'm getting error message saying [ Sorry, we didn't recognize your sign-in details. please check your skype name and password, then try again.]. i tried to reeset my password, but i cant remind which email used to creat skype account. i have very important cntact in my skype so please make sure i need a help from you.
Thank you
Nawfel Mohomed
(Sri Lanka)
Open the link below and just select the appropriate option/category in your case.
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA109/i-ve-forgotten-my-password
please also be advised that you may be asked to provide verification details or answer verification questions before Skype can proceed in assisting you resetting your account password.
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In Yosemite, I can;t operate for more than a few minutes with Keychain or Safari asking for my login password. How can I turn this off, and still be safe?

Using Yosemite, I an't seem to work for more than a few minutes without being asked for my login password. Keychain wants it, Safari wants it, iCloud wants it..the list goes on. Then in 10 minutes or so, they all want it again. Passwords are being stored by Safari as usual, but new tabs or pages bring up the request. How can I turn this off and still have protection?

Tutorial: Resolving Keychain Issues
If you can't access your keychain, or forget your password If you can't get into your keychain file because you've forgotten your password or the keychain file appears to be corrupt, there are a couple of options.
First, if you've forgotten your password, you can use the "Keychain First Aid" utility to make the keychain password the same as the login password. This can be accomplished via the following process:
1. Open Keychain Access (located in Applications/Utilities)
2. Go to the "Keychain Access" menu and select "Preferences"
3. Click the "First Aid" tab
4. Make sure the "Synchronize login keychain password" box is checked
5. Close the Preferences window
6. Go to the "Keychain Access" menu and select "Keychain First Aid"
7. Enter your username and password
8. Click the "Repair" button
The second option is to completely delete your keychain then recreate it. This routine is useful if your keychain appears to be corrupt or otherwise inaccessible. This can be accomplished as follows:
1. Launch Keychain Access (located in Applications/Utilities)
2. Click "Show Keychains" in the lower-left corner of the window.
3. Select the problematic keychain from the left-hand pane.
4. Navigate to the "File" menu and select "Delete Keychain '(name of keychain)'"
5. Check all options for deletion and press "OK"
6. Create a new keychain by going to the "File" menu, then "New" and selecting
"New Keychain"
7. You can now make this keychain your default if you desire by selecting it, then
going to the "File" menu and selecting "Make '(name of keychain)' Default"
Login as root and perform repair In some cases, problems with keychains can only be resolved when logged in as the root user.
First, you want to enable the root user:
1. OS X Mountain Lion: Enable and disable the root user
2. OS X Lion: Enable and disable the root user
3. Mac OS X 10.6: Enabling the root user
4. Enabling and using the "root" user in Mac OS X
After enabling the root user, and logging in under this account, again open Keychain Access. First attempt repairs using Keychain First Aid, and failing that, delete then recreate the keychain as described above while logged in as root.
Persistently asked for stored passwords If you are persistently asked for passwords in various applications that you have specified should be remembered in a keychain, your "login" keychain may not be active for one reason or another.
Navigate to ~/Library/Keychains/ (this is the Library folder inside your user's home folder). Find the file named "login.keychain" and double-click it.
Failing that, select the "login" keychain within the Keychain Access application and make sure it is the default keychain by going to the "File" menu and selecting "Make 'Login' Default"
Turn off Keychain synchronization in applications having problems If specific applications are experiencing issues when accessing password-protected material, the Keychain may be to blame.
The above comes from an article published on MacFixit.com.

Do I have to use a login password?

Do I have to use a login password? If not, how can I change the setting so I'm not required to enter it each time I log on?
Thanks!

Open the Users & Groups and Security panes of System Preferences and ensure that automatic login isn't disabled.
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How to disable role password in Solaris 11

Roles can only be assumed by logged in users. That is the definition of a role. Therefore role authentication is to some extent double authentication. The user has already authenticated as himself when he logged in and the sysadmin has enough trust in him to grant him a certain role. So why would he need to authenticate to the role? Isn't that double authentication ? Anyway I can see why that makes sense on a role like 'root' but on other more normal types of roles ? Really?
Anyway that is not what this posting is about. It is about me not being able to figure out how to disable role password in Oracle 11.
In Solaris 10 I would do:
<pre>passwd -r files -d myrole</pre>
That would set the myrole account to a no password account and that would be enough to disable it.
In Solaris 11 I cannot make this work. I suspect this is because of the introduction of the roleauth attribute but I've tried all possible combinations:
<pre>passwd -r files -d myrole</pre>
<pre>rolemod -K roleauth=user myrole</pre>
or
<pre>passwd -r files -d myrole</pre>
<pre>rolemod -K roleauth=role myrole</pre>
Can't make any of these work.
Pls help.

Hello MrMonza,
I do not completely understand what you are looking for. Perhaps it would help if you explained, for which purpose you want to use your new role.
In short, a role is simply a user account, to which you cannot login directly. As to every user account, rights are assigned to each role. And as for every user account, you have to provide a password for it.
If you want to switch to a role without password, this is nearly the same as extending the rights of your account.
This is possible by assigning additional profiles to it via /etc/user_attr. Privileged commands, written by you, and connected to these profiles, can be defined in /etc/security/exec_attr.d/local-entries. These commands can be called via pfexec, see pfexec(1), which grants privileges (e.g. uid=0) for just the call.
See also user_attr(4), prof_attr(4), exec_attr(4) and the "SEE ALSO" sections in there.
Profiles can be chosen from the predefined profiles in /etc/security/prof_attr.d, or they can be self-assembled from these profiles and authorizations from /etc/security/auth_attr.d.
New profiles should be stored in /etc/security/prof_attr.d/local-entries.

OIM11g - disable set password on first logon + force challenge questions

Hi all,
I was initially trying to work out how to stop forcing users to set their passwords on first login. Initially by using the Force Password Change at First Login flag.
I found the following in metalink:
BUG:10256559: DOCUMENT THAT XL.FORCEPASSWORDCHANGEATFIRSTLOGIN NO LONGER USED IN 11G
The system property "Force Password Change at First Login" is not used in Oracle Identity Manager 11g Release 1 (11.1.1). Setting this property has no effect.
I have also tried setting all of the flags on a user relating to this manually, but that hasn't worked either e.g.
usr_change_pwd_at_next_logon
usr_pwd_must_change
I saw the following workaround in metalink:
How To : How to Disable Change Password At Next Logon in OIM 11g
Go to EM and change the ssoEnabled flag as per below instructions
1. Go to WebLogic Domain -> <Domain Name>
2. Right click and open 'System MBean Browser'
3. In the 'System MBean Browser' left panel, go to 'oracle.iam' -> Server:<server name> --> Application:oim --> XML Config --> Config --> XMLConfig.SSOConfig --> SSOConfig
4. Set the SsoEnabled flag to 'true' and apply
Which works, however it also prevents challenge questions being forced on a user, which we want.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks!

yes, system property doesn't work in this case. you can try the simple test case
1. create a new user
2. login to oim db and update usr set usr_change_pwd_at_next_logon=0 for newely created user. (default value is 1)
3.commit the change in db
4. close the browser or clear cache. sometime it pick the value from cache. better close the the browser and open it
5. login with the new user it won't ask for the password change but it will force to set question.

My ipad mini is disabled and password is not working

Ipad mini disabled and password is not working. Unable to get serial because can't unlock ipad. Have not previously synced with a computer.

How can I unlock my iPad if I forgot the passcode?
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ipad/ipad-troubleshooting-repair-faq/ipad- how-to-unlock-open-forgot-code-passcode-password-login.html
iOS: Device disabled after entering wrong passcode
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212
How can I unlock my iPad if I forgot the passcode?
http://tinyurl.com/7ndy8tb
How to Reset a Forgotten Password for an iOS Device
http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-a-Forgotten-Password-for-an-iOS-Device
Using iPhone/iPad Recovery Mode
http://ipod.about.com/od/iphonetroubleshooting/a/Iphone-Recovery-Mode.htm
You may have to do this several times.
Saw this solution on another post about an iPad in a school environment. Might work on your iPad so you won't lose everything.
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‘iPad is disabled’ fix without resetting using iTunes
Today I met my match with an iPad that had a passcode entered too many times, resulting in it displaying the message ‘iPad is disabled – Connect to iTunes’. This was a student iPad and since they use Notability for most of their work there was a chance that her files were not all backed up to the cloud. I really wanted to just re-activate the iPad instead of totally resetting it back to our default image.
I reached out to my PLN on Twitter and had some help from a few people through retweets and a couple of clarification tweets. I love that so many are willing to help out so quickly. Through this I also learned that I look like Lt. Riker from Star Trek (thanks @FillineMachine).
Through some trial and error (and a little sheer luck), I was able to reactivate the iPad without loosing any data. Note, this will only work on the computer it last synced with. Here’s how:
1. Configurator is useless in reactivating a locked iPad. You will only be able to completely reformat the iPad using Configurator. If that’s ok with you, go for it – otherwise don’t waste your time trying to figure it out.
2. Open iTunes with the iPad disconnected.
3. Connect the iPad to the computer and wait for it to show up in the devices section in iTunes.
4. Click on the iPad name when it appears and you will be given the option to restore a backup or setup as a new iPad (since it is locked).
5. Click ‘Setup as new iPad’ and then click restore.
6. The iPad will start backing up before it does the full restore and sync. CANCEL THE BACKUP IMMEDIATELY. You do this by clicking the small x in the status window in iTunes.
7. When the backup cancels, it immediately starts syncing – cancel this as well using the same small x in the iTunes status window.
8. The first stage in the restore process unlocks the iPad, you are basically just canceling out the restore process as soon as it reactivates the iPad.
If done correctly, you will experience no data loss and the result will be a reactivated iPad. I have now tried this with about 5 iPads that were locked identically by students and each time it worked like a charm.
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Try it and good luck. You have nothing more to lose if it doesn't work for you.
 Cheers, Tom

Proxy with login password

Hello,
I try to use Jdev behind a firewall with ip + port + login + password
How configure Jdev to work with this firewall
Option Preference Proxy does not give the choice of login/password preference
Thank you

Hello,
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If ADT cannot connect to the time-stamp server, then signing is canceled and no package is produced. Specify -tsa none to disable time-stamping. However, an AIR application packaged without a timestamp ceases to be installable after the signing certificate expires.
Chris

[solved] adduser --disabled-login

I am still new to Arch, and I am trying to run a server on Arch. I am trying to create my serv user. What is the command for this?
This worked on Ubuntu Server(Debian), but not on Arch.
Arch:
[jesse@Chronos]# su
Password:
[root@Chronos]# adduser --disabled-login serv
bash: adduser: command not found
Last edited by krono-matrixer (2015-05-30 19:39:08)

One way to do this, and I don't know if this is the preferred way, is to set the shell to nologin. So the useradd command would look like:
useradd -s /usr/bin/nologin username
Checkout the manpage for nologin for more details.
Last edited by nullified (2015-03-13 14:41:01)

I forgot my keychain login password

I don't remember my keychain password (the one you use to unlock the keychain and stuff). I've tried a bunch of different passwords that I use...like my admin. password but it doesn't work...how can I reset it or recover it? thanks
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

> I was interested to note your comment about being unable to reset the login keychain password after resetting the admin password on a computer with the install disk.
Resetting your login password with the install disc does not reset the login keychain password. When creating a login account and password, the password for the account's login keychain is the same as the login account password. If you want the login keychain password to be different, you must change it via Keychain Access. Changing the login account's password via an install disc does not change the login keychain password for the login account. I believe this is for security reasons. Although a thief can gain access to a person's login account and home folder/directory by using an install disc to manually change the login password for the account, this does not change the login keychain password also so sensitive data stored in a person's keychain cannot be accessed without knowing the original login account password that matches the original login keychain password.
1. If you require password to wake this computer from sleep or screen saver, someone can't. To have your keychain extra secure, you can also make your login keychain password different from your login password but if your login password is not the same as your default keychain password, you'll be asked for the password whenever an application needs access to your keychain and your keychain is locked - but this would be more trouble than it is worth IMO.
2. Same as the answer to 1.
3. Someone can't if you disable automatic login for your login account which is highly recommended. Even though I currently live alone, I have automatic login disabled for my login account. If someone steals my PB and has access to an install disc to manually change the password for my login account, they can gain access to all my data in my home folder/directory but not gain access to sensitive data stored in my login keychain which is not automatically changed when manually changing the login password with an install disc.
This is also where utilizing an encrypted disk image comes into play to store sensitive data but to be extra secure, you should not store the password for an encrypted disk image in your keychain. My encrypted disk images require that I manually enter the password to mount the encrypted disk images but the downside when doing so is if you forget the password for the encrypted disk image, all data stored within the disk will be lost with no way to recover it.
Overall it is probably best to store the password for an encrypted disk image in your keychain but if you give someone else access to your Mac when logged in to your account, any encrypted disk image will mount automatically when selected which is also why it is best not to allow anyone else to access your Mac via your login account.

Save login/password with Proxy HTTP "Auto" preset (.pac file)

Hi,
I'm behind an Internet proxy. I have configured my iPhone with the following parameters :
Proxy HTTP : Auto + the right URL to get my enterprise .pac file.
What bothers me : I have to re-enter my login/password frequently.
Do you have the same problem ?
Note : The Proxy HTTP "Manual" preset let me enter these login and password, why not the "Auto" preset ?

Hello,
Were you able to successfully build your AIR app? It is possible to bypass the timestamp but there are caveats. Here's what the docs have to say:
If ADT cannot connect to the time-stamp server, then signing is canceled and no package is produced. Specify -tsa none to disable time-stamping. However, an AIR application packaged without a timestamp ceases to be installable after the signing certificate expires.
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Remove login passwords

Dear Apple Community,
Yesterday I activated login passwords for my Macbook, & now want to remove them.
ie. Make my computer like it was, when brand new. Without formatting the entire hard disk.
I have searched the community for a solution, but haven't found one yet.
Thank you for reading this, & I hope that you can advise me.
-Raj

It's not clear what activated login passwords implies. If you mean autologin, then Accounts, and disable autologin. If something else, please provide more details.

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