Password Reset and vanishing user account

Here's the situation.
My friend did not know the password to her iMac, so using the install DVD that came with my iBook I booted her machine and did the password reset as per article 106156. However I not only changed the password to her user account, but also to the root account. (I did not actually see the article until afterward which says not to touch root). After both user and root passwords were successfully changed, I rebooted only to find that the user account was missing from the log in menu! Also unfortunate is that I don't have any other boot/repairs disks aside from my system install disk.
I can't quite figure out why that might happen and how to resolve it. The install disk had 10.3 and her machine had 10.2, but I don't think that is the issue.
How do I get the missing user account to reappear?
If worse comes to worse I might try booting the iMac up in target disk mode and try to retrieve the user data if its possible to do so.

Andrew,
This link might help explain what is possible with SAP Portal in terms of allowing the user to reset their password from the logon screen.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/45/7e6313d8780dece10000000a11466f/frameset.htm
As for allowing a user to unlock their account from the logon page, there is no such functionality that I know of. This would need to be developed. We are doing something similar. In our case, we are developing a module that allows user to retreive their user ID if they forget it. This also is not functionality that SAP provides. The user can specify their email address, and it emails them their user ID. This is being developed in Web Dynpro for Java utilizing the UME APIs.
- Andrew Castillo

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Portal: Password reset and unlock User via UME?

I'm new to Portal and SAP. I'm trying to find options to have a username unlocked and password sent to user based on a userid from our Portal logon page.
The end user needs only to know their user ID, and based on this user ID I need their username to be unlocked, and a temporary password to be emailed to them (Looked up from their user ID via Database)
From what I've been reading UME can do this, but when I look into configuration of it I'm not seeing anything that can define this to show up on the Portal logon page. Does this have to be developed and built in or linked as a separate page or is there a prefab one made already(nothing I could find showed evidence of this, although the documentation regarding UME hinted at this)?
The end user doesn't need to answer security questions because to get access to the portal they already have to be on my secured network.
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Edited by: Andrew Urban on Aug 7, 2008 12:09 AM
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Andrew,
This link might help explain what is possible with SAP Portal in terms of allowing the user to reset their password from the logon screen.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/45/7e6313d8780dece10000000a11466f/frameset.htm
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Possible to create separate passwords for admin and main user account?

Hello,
My ex wife is going to lend me her Macbook so I can open a separate account to transfer 30K critical business emails from my current Macbook Pro to Mail.app whilst it gets replaced by Apple.
I still need to work with these emails over the week I'll be left without the computer.
I was thinking, when requesting to import the mailboxes from my External HD, will it ask for a administrators password?
She's a bit paranoid about giving me it if that's the case, even though I couldn't give a toss... so is there a way to password protect her main user account with one password, and create another admin password for importing an external mail folder - as OSX sometimes asks for an admin password to install apps etc.
If I can just use a guest account and import the 'Mail' and 'Mail Downloads' folders from my library to a separate Mail.app on her computer without a password, then great.
If it's the case the admin password is needed, please let me know ASAP so we can make arrangements for her to hang around to type it in whilst I initially make the transfer - which would be a right royal pain because I'd have to tidy the house up and put some putpourri out and ****.
TIA

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Hi All,
CUP Password Reset is requiring users to enter user ID and password before resetting the password. Basically, if a user forgets his password, he needs to enter his password to reset it (in other words, it doesn't work).
Anyone have thoughts on how to resolve this?
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Why not?
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I've been tearing my hair over PC Suite with my Nokia 6670, and after considerable experimentation and study of the forum here there only seems to be one possible conclusion:It never occurred to the programmers of PC Suite that anyone might want to run the program on more than one user account. It never occurred to them that anyone might want to install the program in one account and use it in another. And they most certainly never even dreamed of anyone trying to use it under a limited Windows account.
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This message is complete rubbish. It doesn't matter how often you uninstall or reinstall PC Suite (even if you also delete all Nokia and PC Suite folders and registry keys manually), the results under a limited account are always the same.
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A few months ago I was in the middle of a school assignment and my HP laptop started acting strange. I would try to move an image and a copy of it would remain in its place. I couldn't delete the picture either, but I could "cut" the image. Well,
I ended up restarting the computer and when I logged on it logged me into a temporary account because my account failed to log on. Not knowing exactly what was going on or what to do we ended up doing a system restore like a dummy and restarted the computer.
Well, when I logged back in everything was gone, all my school stuff was gone. What do I do can I get these back without having to pay a lot of money to do so? I am a single mother of two and there is no way I can afford anything.

I'm assuming that, since this post is 2 years old, rachbutterfly81 has already moved on with her life. But, since this is the second time I've run into this problem, and this is the first time I've found a solution that worked, I thought I would add my two
cents. Of course I do agree that the original response was a little heavy for a mother of two, but it did work for me (with some slight variation that I will get to).
I definitely disagree with Mr. Malotte's statement that all her files were deleted by the system restore. She was obviously logged in under a temporary account, and so all her original files were fine and stored under the same location they always were.
There was no need for her to purchase additional software to "recover" her files when they were all there under her original account name. All she would have had to do to find her files (assuming she was running Windows Vista or 7) was to open her "C:" drive
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Anyway, the first solution worked for me, BUT there is absolutely no reason to delete the original account folder as Magon suggests in step 3!
Simply rename it. Once you finish step 5 and delete the original registry key (I recommend backing it up by right clicking on the key and selecting export), there is no reason to reboot your machine. There are some additional steps to make
life a little easier though. I've added them to a modified version of the original:
1. If you know you have another administrative account you can use, go ahead and restart your PC to release the locks on your profile. If you don't have another account to use, you can create one by going to "Add or remove user accounts" in the control panel.
Select "Create a new account," name it whatever you want, check the Administrator box, and click "Create Account" (you may want to consider adding a password to this account as well). Now you can restart.
2. Log on with another administrative account
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is different than it was and you can still find it again.
4. Delete C:\Users\TEMP
5. Delete the registry key matching your SID from
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList". Check the value "ProfileImagePath" to make sure you pick your own profile.
6. Log off and then log into your original account. Everything will still look messed up, like before, but it will not warn you that you are logged in under a temporary account.
7.While logged in, navigate to your user directory (not C:\Users\myaccount.original, but the current one you are logged in under, C:\Users\myaccount) and copy any files you see that say "ntuser" in them into your original profile directory (C:\Users\myaccount.original).
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at it, uncheck the box next to "Hide protected operating system files."
8.Once you've copied the files over, go ahead and log out. You will need to log into your other administrative account once more.
9.Rename the new account (or delete it if you want), and rename your original account back to what it was (so "C\Users\myaccount.original" will be renamed to "C:\Users\myaccount").
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