Lock out users

I want to keep my kids off my computer when I'm not home but I do not want to wipe out their user. How can I make it so they can't sign in unless I let them??

Your signature says you are on 10.4.1, but this is the Leopard forum. In Leopard, you can set up Parental Controls to limit access hours (System Preferences>Accounts, click on the account in question and click 'Parental Controls').
However in Tiger you cannot do this, you can only limit access to certain applications. You would need to get a third-party program such as Intego's ContentBarrier which provides comprehensive filtering, control and reporting.
The only other way would be to set a password for each of their accounts, but not tell them what it is: you would have to log them in (and make sure they can't watch the keyboard).
There might be hardware solutions which would enable you to lock USB ports out so they couldn't plug a keyboard in.

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Hi gurus,
SAP advises in help.sap.com to lock out all users and suspend batch jobs before activating a business function in development. I did that in development, activated the business function, and saved it to a transport. Does the same recommendation to lock out users and suspend batch jobs hold true in the QA and Production systems when the transport is moved in? ... or is it ok to transport it during a time when there is user and batch activity going on?
Warm Regards,
CM

You do have to lock out users and suspend batch, even using a transport. There is a pdf called
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Trying to connect to a Windows share locks out users Windows account.

Right then I’m coming to the end of my tether !!!
I've got a user who needs to access a share on a Windows server. All is well and the user gets the challenge prompt but instead of letting him in it constantly challenges him locking out his windows account.
Now the share is on a DC so i cant make him a local Admin and the only way i can get this working is to have him in the domain admin group which is NOT the way forward, so i'm looking at permissions i guess.
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Locking out user

We are running 8i on win2003 using asp pages to update the database with clients on xp and 2k via oraoledb.
We have a recurring problem where after 2wks-2mons users start getting locked out and no longer being able to update.
The only solution so far is to shut down and restart the database which has an obviously deleterious affect on production.

Glen,
"...after 2wks-2mons users start getting locked out and no longer being able to update."
Do you mean users can still connect to the database but cannot update database?
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Locking out users with FND_USER

At fiscal year-end here, we did a cold back-up and then only allowed core accounting users into eBiz the next day until they’d done all their roll-over stuff and made sure they hadn’t messed anything up in the process. Then we let everyone else back in.
The way we did it was by end-dating accounts in FND_USER with SQL, but we ran into some problems with that.
I coded up a PL/SQL procedure that would end-date everyone except for select people (i.e. critical IT and accounting folks) and used that to lock everyone out. Based on a switch, the same procedure re-enabled everyone that I'd locked previously out when we were ready.
We had something weird happen though. The next day, some people couldn't get logged in. They'd enter their user name and password and then get an "unexpected error" directing them to the system administrator. This wasn't everyone, just some people. I figured out through trial and error that if I went into their user record through the application, end-dated them, saved, then un-end-dated them and saved again, that they were fine.
Later I got a call from a user that was logged in but had no responsibilities. So I end-dated all his responsibilities through the application, saved, then un-end-dated them, and that fixed him. We had a couple more show up like that, but only a couple.
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Hi,
Please post the application release along with the database version and the OS.
We had something weird happen though. The next day, some people couldn't get logged in. They'd enter their user name and password and then get an "unexpected error" directing them to the system administrator. This wasn't everyone, just some people. I figured out through trial and error that if I went into their user record through the application, end-dated them, saved, then un-end-dated them and saved again, that they were fine.Can you find any errors in Apache log files (error_log* and access_log*)?
Later I got a call from a user that was logged in but had no responsibilities. So I end-dated all his responsibilities through the application, saved, then un-end-dated them, and that fixed him. We had a couple more show up like that, but only a couple.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?There are couple of reported issues about this behavior and we have discussed in the forum many times before -- Please see old threads for details.
Missing Responsibilities
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Time Machine locks out User Folder

suddenly our TM (1TB TimeCapsule) has locked us out of the backups for a user account. when navigating TM, a little negative sign appears on all the folders. it's as if TM doesn't recognize the login credentials…
totally hosed unless i can figure out a solution. any advice would be very much appreciated. thanks.

have you changed anything about your TM or user setup? log in as the user in question enter TM and scroll back in time. select a file or folder with do not enter sign and enter command+i. in the resulting popup look in the permissions section at the bottom. what does it say?

Sharepoint 2010 locking out users after changing user login

We have changed several users logon UPN to match our proactis.com domain in azure / office 365 in preparation for sync our active directory.
But since doing so it would appear that users are no longer getting access to our sharepoint 2010 server randomly. It prompts the user for their username and password. When they then enter this, it rejects it and locks their accounts.
Has anyone seen this behavior before?

Hi Proactis,
Based on your description, my understanding is that the users with changed UPN cannot access SharePoint Online in Office 365.
If I misunderstood, please feel free to correct me.
This issue may be due to that the changes aren't synced by the Azure Active Directory Sync tool after you change the UPN of a user account to use a different federated domain.
I recommend to run the following command to see if the issue still occurs:
Set-MsolUserPrincipalName -UserPrincipalName [email protected] -NewUserPrincipalName
[email protected]
You can refer to the link below for detailed steps:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2669550
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Unity Connection - Users with system default password getting locked out

Hi all, hope everyone is well !!
I am experiencing a strange problem and hope someone can give me some direction on where to start digging on this issue.
I am getting a good number of users reporting they are getting locked out of their voice mail and they all claim that they have not changed their password and some user even got their greeting recorded by someone else. One thing in common for the users who reported the issue is that they all using the system default password. I am trying to trace to find out who/what has access to these users' mailbox but so far I have not had any luck.
Thanks in advance !!
Danny

Thanks, yes am doing that now and cant really find any new/unique pattern. Plus the trace is pretty hard to follow. Cant really figure out any times stamps in the trace also. The current trace file is defaultTrace.18.trc and it has very simiiar content as some of the older ones before the problem. Right now the ESS portal is working and the slddsuser password is not locked. It seems the problem takes place on start up?
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Tough thing to test in production.
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I am locked out of my ipod mini. i have a new apple password and new apple user id. what more do i need to do?

i am locked out of my apple ipad mini. i have reset the apple user id and password through the computer. what do i do next?

Sign out of old Apple ID and sign in with new.
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I am locked out of my phone. Asking for a google user name and password? I don't know what it is!

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Sending an User an email using SCORCH based on a SCOM alert that his/her account was locked out.

Hi,
I am interested in finding a solution for the following topic.
We would like to send an email to an End-User who's Windows Account has been locked-out. Besides the fact there are measures in place to deal with the situation in general (Monitoring by SCOM 2012 R2, looking for eventid:4740) we would like to notify the
End-User about this event too.
So, we have SCOM 2012 R2 in place to collect all the necessary information at a central location, if you will. The tricky part is to take the information and create an email containing the email address of the User who's account was locked-out. That information
resides within the Description of the Event.
Having asked around basically everyone is pointing to Orchestrator to do the job. Being new to that topic I wonder if someone else has that type of requirement and maybe already found a solution.
So key is, SCOM collects the information from all DCs, has a rule to identify EventID4740, than Orchestrator comes into play to take that Alert and send out an email to the user, who's name is part of the Event Description.
Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

Hello,
first you need to setup System Center Orchestrator:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh420387.aspx . The current version is System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator.
You also need to register, deploy and configure the System Center Integration Pack for System Center 2012 Operations Manager (download of the current version:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39622&WT.mc). You need to install The OpsMgr Operantion Console on the Orchestrator Runbook Server that it works, or
http://blog.coretech.dk/jgs/sco-2012-use-operations-manager-integration-pack-without-installing-opsmgr-console-on-runbook-servers/.
In the event description of 4740 there's the account name not the email address. If the email addresses for the users are maintained in Active Directory register and deploy the Active Directory Integration Pack for System Center 2012 - Orchestrator (also
located in the download above).
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Can I enable the root user account from the log in screen when I am locked out of the machine?

Hello everyone,
I am working on my friends mac to get it ready to sell. I went into the advanced options of the user and changed the name of the account. That's all I changed. I did read the warning that said if anything was changed it could cause damage, that's why I only changed the name of the user account. I didn't want to mess with anything else. Well, needless to say, I am locked out of the machine. Apparently the root user, system administrator, account was not enabled and I am stuck at the screen that I can get to with my installation disc. So how can I enable the root user account and get back onto the machine from the screen I am at? Can I enable the root user from terminal? I spent a good 8 hours yesterday researching this topic and have come up empty. Changing passwords from commands in terminal is not the problem. I am given just one account to choose from to log on and it's not accepting the password because of the changes I made in the advanced options menu.
Is there any hope of getting this thing going again? Or have I just screwed myself over?
Thanks for your help!
Leah

You can reset the password.
http://pondini.org/OSX/Password.html
Do you need to recover data from it before you sell it? If not you can just wipe the disk and prepare it for sale.
See > Apple What to do before selling or giving away your Mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5189?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Also See Thomas Reed's How to Prepare your Mac for sale
http://www.thesafemac.com/how-to-prepare-your-mac-for-sale/
and this thread
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Office 2010 & 2007 - Excel and Access File Locking Out On the Network With Multiple Users

This is also posted in the Office 2010 - IT Pro General Discussions, but was suggested to repost here, since a definitive answer was not found.
Hi,
An issue that's happening is that Excel and Access files are locking on the network. We're currently using Office 2007 and 2010.
Here are some different scenarios that are happening:
When opening the file it is locked out by “User X” which is the person that has the file locked out and no one else can open the file.
When opening the file it is locked out by “User Y” which is NOT the actual person, but is locked out by “User X” and no one else can access the file.
When opening the file it is locked out by “…another user” which is generic and no one else can access the file.
The two more common events are incident 1 and 2 with 3 happening the less common.
This message will continue until the sessions are closed through computer management on the file server.
The file server is running Windows Server 2003.
This does happen on both Windows XP and Windows 7 clients.
This does happen for users using Office 2007 and Office 2010.
There are two sets of Office 2010 Users when it comes to patches. Everyone has the most current patches with Office 2010 SP2 while anyone that has Microsoft Project 2010 is using all the current update before Office 2010 SP2.
All users that are using Office 2007 have all the current patches and service packs.
Another variable is that we have users that will leave a file open on the network for 3+ days and after a while it will lock the file out.
Also we have Shadow Copy that runs daily on the system which I'm not for sure if that impacts anything if a file is opening during that time.
Any ideas on how to mitigate the lock out issues would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Binary Process
Edit November 12, 2013: This issue can occur if and if not another person actually has the file open. If the person doesn't have the file open then there is a hung connection which needs to be disconnected by going to the Computer Management of the File
server.

Hi Binary,
I know that the description of the hotfix does not relate to the issue. The purpose is to install it for upgrading SMB related file.
A similar issue I encountered before:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/b7fcc59b-52d9-4a02-863a-1a529bcb8cb1/temp-doc-etc-files-dont-close-after-a-file-closes-this-causes-locked-files?forum=winserverfiles
It is resolved by upgrading SMB files so maybe it will help on your case.
Another hotfix which may related:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983458
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Remote user received a "deny log on locally" policy - and is now locked out

Hello,
A traveling user who received a "deny log on locally" policy remotely.
He was accidentally added to a wrong group and is now locked out.
What are the steps to clear this policy? We have a backup local admin account I can remote into.
I appreciate any suggestions or comments.

> What are the steps to clear this policy? We have a backup local admin
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