Making user account logins case sensitive?

Hi, just a quick question. Is it possible to make a user account login name case sensitive? Currently I can log on using upper or lower case for the login name however I would rather only the exact login name could be used.
Thanks

I had already answered with example.
Re: Making user account logins/passwords case sensitive?

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Making user account logins/passwords case sensitive?

Hi, just a quick question. Is it possible to make user account login/passwords be case sensitive? At the moment they are case insensitive.
Thanks :)

You can make only user account login case sensitive but not password.
SQL> create user "Test" identified by "tEST";
User created.
SQL> grant create session to "Test";
Grant succeeded.
SQL> conn test/test
ERROR:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
Warning: You are no longer connected to ORACLE.
SQL> conn "Test"/test
Connected.
SQL>

What is the default admin user account login id and password in Windows 8?

Hi all,
The current admin acccount in Windows 8 system are changed to Standard and no other Admin account is available in the system.
What is the default admin user account login id and password in Windows 8?
Or
Is there way to change the User role for the account?
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I am able to login as a Normal user, can not login as administrator.Hence can not install any software or change my user settings or create a new user.
What is the default admin password. How can i reset it form my user account
C:\Users\Amit>net user Administrator
User name                    Administrator
Full Name
Comment                      Built-in account for administering the computer/domain
User's comment
Country/region code          000 (System Default)
Account active               No
Account expires              Never
Password last set            7/26/2012 12:57:03 PM
Password expires             Never
Password changeable          7/26/2012 12:57:03 PM
Password required            Yes
User may change password     Yes
Workstations allowed         All
Logon script
User profile
Home directory
Last logon                   9/16/2013 1:16:30 PM
Logon hours allowed          All
Local Group Memberships      *Administrators
Global Group memberships     *None
The command completed successfully.

Suddenly user account login requested, but was newer created (OS X 10.5.6), how to get access again

suddenly user account login requested, but was newer created (OS X 10.5.6), how to get access again?

No account ever created, or what?
If not 1.6 Server, then...
Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD...
http://theappleblog.com/2008/06/22/reset-os-x-password-without-an-os-x-cd/
Admin Hack...
http://www.hackmac.org/?q=node/4
Starts up like the first time you buy a new Mac, but after filling in all that info again, you should have access to the computer and the other Users & files will still be there... give the new User a different name than an existing one.
http://www.macyourself.com/2009/08/03/how-to-reset-your-mac-os-x-password-withou t-an-installer-disc/

Mac OS X, User Folder and Case-sensitivity (plus a Partitioning Question)

Hello everybody.
Today, I'd like to start a new thread regarding the configuration of OS X and the formatting of the drive with a HFS+ (case-sensitive, journaled) file system.
There is a problem that has been tormenting me for quite some time now, and so far I haven't been able to find a losution yet.
Here is the issue. When I bought my MacBook Pro (early 2011), I changed the main dirve to an hybrid SSD destinating the original 750GB to a Time Machine backup disk. As a consequence I had to make a fresh install of OS X. When it came the time of formatting I've opted for:
Creating two partitions: 1 for the OS and 1 for the user folder (I have only one admin-user). Back then, I was coming from a Win enviroment and having two partitions seemed to be the best option for me. (Less chanche of user-data corruption in case something goes wrong in the OS partition).
Chose a HFS+ (case-sensitive, journaled) file system. It seemed to be the more complete alternative.
Everything was absolutely for a couple of months then I encountered the first issue: Adobe products don't work on a case-sensitive fs.
I managed to get Photoshop to work eventually (manually correcing folders name) and didn't care too much about the rest.
In the meantime over a year has passed and I kept the mentioned configuration, uptdating to Lion and ML. Recently another couple of isses have appeared: AutoCAD presents the same problem as Adobe and there is an issue in the keyboard balcklight control (from forums seems that ML is not able to store any information in System Preferences regarding the backlight).
Despite the fact that case-sensitive fs seems to be the future solution chosen by Apple, it is still premature to have it as OS fs unless you are an hard-core developer that don't care about tons of programs that would eventually miss from your application folder.
Being decided to move back to a case-insesntive fs, I need wish I could calrify a couple of doubts before proceding:
(Not relatete to fs) Is it a good practice to keep user folder on a separate volume? Does it generates any issue on the base of your experience?
Is it possible to have the OS on case-insensitive fs and the user folder on a case-sensitive one? Does the OS have an issue with that?
The second point is the most critical as my data are now on a case-sensitive volume. They mostly consists in documents, images and music which should be migrated on a case-insensitive volume seamlessy, however, I'm not 100% sure about what happened during the last year (i.e. if there has been the generation of not-unique names).
Furhtermore, I wish I could keep a case-sens volume as I plan to be dealing with a Linux enviroment soon. If that could be the user volume, this would be amazing.
I'd also like to ask personal opinion on advantages of having case-sens fs.
I understand I asked lots of questions in a single post. I hope, however, that this thread could be a base to collect some of the quite dispersive topics related to case-sensitivity present on the web.
Best Regards,
Alexander

alexanderxc wrote:
Linc, in the provious post you said there might be issues having user data on a separte partition.
Which kind of issues are you tihnking of? Have you ever encountered such problems?
The biggest risk is that poorly written software will assume your home directory is at /Users/you and will fail (or worse) if it doesn't like what it finds there.
I really appreciated if you could be more specific and don't worry about being too technical.
There are two ways you can go about it.
1) Set everything up normally as if you only had one partition. Create your user on that one parition. Then, copy all the real user data to the 2nd partition. Using your admin account, make sure that all the permission on the user folder on the 2nd partition are the same as on the original partition. The, use System Preferences > Users & Groups > your account > right/control click > Advanced > Home directory and change it to the home directory on the 2nd partition. Log in to that new account. Make sure everything works. Then delete the user directory at /Users.
2) A even more robust, old-school option is to create an /etc/fstab file and have your 2nd partition mounted at /Users. Then, everything will function normally and your user home directories will all be at /Users. /Users will, however, be on a different volume.

User account login issues

i was using my macbook pro and i was log off to the login window automatically. since then i am unable to login again to that user but other user accounts can be used. anytime i try it seems its loging in but shows a flash blank screen and then back to the login window. pls i need help because all my files are in that user account and cannot even copy them to other user accounts when i tried, pls help me.

You didn't transfer over the Microsoft User Data folder from the old user account.
For further questions regarding Outlook, please post the on Microsfot's own forums for their Mac software as Apple Communities only provide support for Apple products:
http://www.officeformac.com/productforums

Question: Do Any Mac/Lightroom users use a case-sensitive filesystem?

I know most people use the default case-insensitive Mac filesystem. But plugins may have issues in a case-sensitive filesystem (if not explicitly programmed to handle case), which I just learned is an option for Mac users. Just wondering if any Lightroom users actually do it.
Thanks,
Rob

areohbee wrote:
I'm starting to think that having a case-sensitive filesystem on Mac would only be done by people with very special purposes in mind - e.g. developers who want to test unix command-line apps..., and would "always" be accompanied by case-insensitive volumes for normal Mac use - e.g. Lightroom-data/plugins/photos...
Ya think?
Almost certainly.
As I mentioned before, case-sensitivity is required for, among other things, POSIX compliance, which is of particular interest to a segment of the enterprise and interoperability spaces. Microsoft achieves this by a kernel change (and one of two POSIX-for-Windows licensed libraries) and offering a case-sensitive file system, NTFS. Apple achieves this by offering a way to make HFS+ case-sensitive, with kernel services and a BSD POSIX subsystem that is case-sensitive to the extent the file system is.
Note that apps that treat filespecs as unique when they differ only in case are not necessarily "poorly coded" as this would depend on context and application. There are some very, very good reasons to do so. In fact, one could make an argument that apps that cannot handle a case-sensitive environment are the poorly coded examples. Blindly assuming the case of a filespec makes it unique, or rewriting an existing filespec to a "corrected" one, are very dangerous assumptions.
For most of us, the defaults are more natural, and I would hazard a guess that Lr gets little or no QA under such environments. I know of at least one corner-case (exposed here) that would probably break.

On the iMac user account login screen, what does the checkmark mean?

On my iMac, I have 3 user accounts. Sometimes I have noticed that next to 1 of the 3 account names that I will sometimes see a small white check mark in a red circle. What does this mean?

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User Account Login Offsite

Hi,
I'm new to managing servers. I am looking at setting up an imac with mac os x server (snow leopard).
If i was to configure multiple computers (laptops & desktops) to login with network accounts. What is the protocol for laptops when offsite? if they have an internet conenction when offsite can they login to their network accounts? If not can you configure a sync of their local & network home directories?
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Yes, this is entirely possible - it's called Mobile home directories. Users log in with a cached copy of their account credentials, and whenever their client is in reach of the server they automatically update and sync home directory data.
It's covered at length in chapter 8 of the Mac OS X Server User Management manual.

User Account Login: Goes back to login Window

I have 4 accounts set up on an iMac (10.6). One of the accounts has suddenly stopped working. After typing in the password at the login screen, it looks as if the mac is trying to log in, the screen then turns blue, and the login screen is then displayed.
The other accounts all work fine, and I can log in and log out without issue.
Any ideas?

I too have this frustrating problem. My iMac has three accounts - the login on my main one (an admin account) fails as described. I've tried many possible fixes having read about what could well be the same issue elsewhere on this forum, but no luck. I've rebooted many times; I've used a different account to change the malfunctioning account's password; I've checked the hard drive has plenty of space (it has more than 40% free); I've verified the hard drive (all fine); I've verified and repaired the disk permissions (a few were wrong); I've checked there are not too many files on the desktop; I have changed the UUID (in advanced options of Accounts) for the misbehaving account; and I have tried deleting a number of possible culprits from the Library/Preferences folder including com.apple.finder.plist, com.apple.sidebarlists.plist, com.apple.DiskUtility.plist and com.apple.loginitems.plist.
The problem appeared in stages. At first I could log in but Finder was displayed varying signs of corruptions: sidebar icons absent, the grey bar across the top of the screen not appearing, icons missing from the dock, programs in the dock not starting... A couple of times I managed to log in and found things working fine. But now I can't get in at all - I just see that blue screen for a moment and then get sent back to the login screen.
I wonder whether the some application that's run on start-up is to blame. I looked though com.apple.loginitems.plist for a possible culprit. I saw that it starts iTunesHelper, Kodak Easy Share Wireless Listener, Xmarks for Safari, GrowlHelperApp, and Dropbox. Finding Kodak Easy Share Wireless Listener was a surprise to me - I've uninstalled that. I wonder whether iTunes might be the culprit, as I think I upgraded to a new version of iTunes (9.1.1) shortly before the problems started. But it's hard to tell - I upgraded a number of programs (probably including the OS from 10.6.2) around when these problems began. I would like to try preventing other programs from starting up on log-in, but I don't know how to do that - I don't know how to edit com.apple.loginitems.plist by hand and can't see how to change it through the Accounts page accessed through another user... and anyway just deleting it didn't work. I'm reluctant to uninstall the other applications.
At this point I'm out of ideas and would be grateful for suggestions.

Pwpolicy won't disable a local user account login!

Hello everyone. I have two macs. One mac is running OS 10.4, the other is 10.5. Neither of these computers are remotely managed nor are they bound to an open directory server. I have one local administrative account on each computer I want to leave on the computer but disable login access. I'm trying to use the command:
pwpolicy -a shortNameOfAdministratorAccount -u shortNameOfAccountToChange -setpolicy "isDisabled=1"
When I enter this in the terminal it asks for my administrative password for the account specified in shortNameOfAdministratorAccount. Once I enter it and press return the command returns no errors, just returns to the prompt. However, I can go back to the login window, click on the account I'm trying to disable, type in the password, and I can log in. I've tried running this command under different accounts, a root shell, etc.... Nothing seems to work. Any suggestions? Thanks.

xnav wrote:
I get this:
Path:~$pwpolicy -n /Local/Default -getglobalpolicy
usingHistory=0 canModifyPasswordforSelf=1 usingExpirationDate=0 usingHardExpirationDate=0 requiresAlpha=0 requiresNumeric=0 expirationDateGMT=12/31/69 hardExpireDateGMT=12/31/69 maxMinutesUntilChangePassword=0 maxMinutesUntilDisabled=0 maxMinutesOfNonUse=0 maxFailedLoginAttempts=0 minChars=0 maxChars=0 passwordCannotBeName=0 requiresMixedCase=0 requiresSymbol=0 newPasswordRequired=0 minutesUntilFailedLoginReset=0 notGuessablePattern=0
Re. Tiger working without server, see [this|http://lists.apple.com/archives/fed-talk/2007/Dec/msg00035.html]. You may want to try the global query using 'sudo'.
You get that without sudo, though?
Interesting link. However,
sudo pwpolicy -n /NetInfo/DefaultLocalNode -getglobalpolicy
Password:
*Error: eDSInvalidRecordName : (-14133) for dsDoDirNodeAuth
Method = dsAuthMethodStandard:dsAuthGetGlobalPolicy
/NetInfo/DefaultLocalNode
- cfr

User Account login items keep dissappearing

Ya i dont understand why it does this i load up a prog that i want to start on start up and after i restart it doesnt and i go back to the startup item page and its empty...i worked once but then the next time i started up it was gone. The only thing i think it cold be is that maybe it might dissappear after i have gone into windows and turned off the computer and then go back to apple later
any ideas would be appreciated
Andrew

ehhh...restart of the OD master fixed that problem...
I hate such kind of problems...
Does anybody know, if there is a routine, WHEN and HOW OFTEN the OD sends updates to their clients?
Or does the Clients ask the OD?
...i am puzzled...and tired...but happy

Login - is it case sensitive?

Hi everyone,
I'm using WLS4.0 SP2 with iPlanet LDAP server, and seeing a peculiar thing.
When a user login to the portal, and types username with different case
(lowercase in place of uppercase and vice versa), the portal let the user
login (can see the "customize portal" and "logout" button), but shows no
portlets but the initial welcome page before login. The caching realm setup
for the LDAP server is not case-sensitive. Our network admin also says that
the LDAP server is not case-sensitive.
My question is - where could the source of this peculiar case sensitivity
be? Any insights?
Thanks!
Makoto

You can make only user account login case sensitive but not password.
SQL> create user "Test" identified by "tEST";
User created.
SQL> grant create session to "Test";
Grant succeeded.
SQL> conn test/test
ERROR:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
Warning: You are no longer connected to ORACLE.
SQL> conn "Test"/test
Connected.
SQL>

Local net users - usernames case sensitive

I am facing an annoying issue with our WLC's 5508.We have configured some local accounts - local net users and we found out that usernames are case sensitive.For example when i setup an account with username:TEST and the then try to login with username:test i get authentication failure..
I thought that only the admin accounts were case sensitive.
Has anyone else faced this problem?Is there any solution for this as i have already configured 60 local accounts.
Thank you in advance.

#Management Usernames are case sensitive.
#Local net user seem to be case sensitive per below bug, however it is a old one on 4.0.
http://tools.cisco.com/Support/BugToolKit/search/getBugDetails.do?method=fetchBugDetails&bugId=CSCsg72444
*for local netuser, Does WLC allows to create same usernames like this - Apple, APPLE, AppLe. If allowed then at this point its considered that wlc allows to create case insensitive users for local netusers. Else if only Apple is allowed then it is case sensitive for user creation.
*Now try to login like - apple, aPPLE and also like Apple, APPLE, AppLe.
*Share the result along with the tested wlc code for conclusion. Let see what works and doesn't.

How Can I Login To Multiple User Accounts Simultaneously

I am using an Intel iMac (2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) with 1GB of memory and 10.4.11. I have Fast User Switching enabled. I restart the Mac every morning. Then I login to a second user account. While at work, I access these accounts via VNC.
Sometimes I forget to login to the second user account. I do it from work via VNC, which sometimes causes complications.
Does OSX support simultaneous multiple user account login? If not, is there a work-around solution such as an AppleScript? This would provide a time savings to me, as well as a convenience if I forgot to login to the second user account before leaving home.
Thank you.
Kurt R. Todoroff

Seems to me, in another discussion, the simple Fast User Switching does not
do much really fast or automatically; there are a few faster steps than having
to log into each and every account change (even when FUS is enabled) so
this later development sounds a little more automatic, esp over a distance.
Is there a third party app or valid script that an do the multiple logins automatic
after the first-run; so passwords need not be re-entered, and the screen can just
switch over "fast" to another open account window, ready to go to work in there?
{And not just a keyboard shortcut to save a few little steps, overall.}
Whichever way the road turns...
Good luck & happy computing!
{edited}

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