Problem with user account

I can log into my primary user account, however each login attempt thereafter to my apps or any website allows me to enter user id and only one character of the password. Then my computer seems to lock up requiring a force quit. Logging into my secondary user account does not replicate this problem. I suspect a corrupt file somewhere. What can i do?

I found the problem. I inadvertently turned the "mouse keys on" in Universal Access. This had caused the number keys on the far right side of my keyboard to be dead, I thought I was unable to login anywhere because of not being able to enter any alpha-numeric passwords. I'm glad thats over. I've got to be more careful about clicking things. Anyway, Peace.

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I have attempted several times to use my admin account to set up a user account on my G4 desktop. I can always manage to set up the user and password, but whenever I log in as the new user, the password doesn't work. I've tried this several times using different user names and different passwords, but no luck. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
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I was having a similar problem to yours. Running 10.4.6 on an old PowerBook G4 Titanium 400Mhz, and when I tried to create a new regular user account last week, the login window wouldn't accept my new password for the user account, even though I'd just created it. It just shook/shuddered to indicate typing the wrong password, even though I knew I was typing it right!
I tried lots of troubleshooting steps to no avail. Downloaded and installed the newest 10.4.8 full updater. Ran disk utility to repair permissions, and checked the disk for problems. Still no go on logging into the new regular user account. Deleted and recreated the account a few times with no luck.
Then I went into the security control panel and set a new "Master Password" for my computer. When I created a new account, and then tried to log in, it rejected the password, but after typing the "right" password four times, the computer gave me an opportunity to type the Master Password, and then "reset" the new user's password, after which it logged in just fine!
I definitely recommend trying this procedure before going through a whole reinstall process for the operating system!
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Help! Stupid problem with user accounts!

I got a very old, very cheap laptop (original ibook clamshell). The Short Name referred to one of the previous owners. I had a vague idea of changing it, but realised this might be difficult. I haven't really got a rescue CD at present; the OS must have gone through several OS versions on the way, and it won't run Tiger which is what I have on my desktop.
The OS is up to late Panther. I haven't had any problems with it. Having some time on my hands, I picked up an O'Reilly book on 'Panther hacks', and went through the 'Change Short Name' routine with netinfo. Before doing this, I made sure there werent any document files on the machine I'd be bothered about losing. It has less than 1Gb hard drive space, so I've never regarded it as a machine to keep things on.
Went through the process of doing this, and moving the home directory, without problems.
Logged out. Discovered that there were two users with my name because I'd also created another user with my name but realised that the main account with the Short Name will run the machine. Logged in, and deleted one of them into Deleted Users.
This took a suspiciously long time; I suspect I deleted the main user by mistake. Yes, I realise this was a Bad Thing.
Suddenly, instead of having two administrator accounts with my name, I have one standard account with my name. (Yes, both accounts were administrator accounts before I deleted the wrong one by accident...)
I haven't particularly lost data, because any data created on Methuselap the Ancient of Days's minuscule hard drive gets networked straight over to my main desktop, and I don't have a login password set (again, anything that needs to be secure can go on a flash drive or the desktop), I'm annoyed (mostly at my own stupidity) that I am now no longer able to fix my privileges to set myself up as admin.
Has anybody got any particular bright ideas for what to do next?

Ruth,It will be of benefit to others who may find a similar situation to yourself if you mark Niel's post as 'Helpful' or more probably 'Solved' and the overall case as answered.
This will also credit Niel for providing the help and push him 10pts closer to getting his Level 5 status!
thanks
mrtotes

Problems with user account on external HD

I'm on a mac mini (Early 2009) running OS 10.9.5. Quite some time ago I moved my user account to an external disk named, let's say "My Disk" and things were running fine. Recently, however, I logged into my account but could not access any of my files. I logged through another account, checked the home directory in Preferences/Users & Groups, and found it to be in the right place, "/Volumes/My Disk/my_home_folder". I then manually navigated to my home folder, and when I selected it, it showed up as "/Volumes/My Disk 1/my_home_folder" (notice the numeral 1 after the name of the disk). This fixed the problem and I can now log on to my account, but:
This is the second time within a few days that the OS renamed the external HD spontaneously by adding a numeral
This numeral does not show on the disk image on the desktop, nor in disk utilities
I can rename the external disk to a different name without a numeral and repoint my account, but if I want to change the name back to it "My Disk", the OS will attach the numeral to it, when viewed in Preferences/Users & Groups.
Is there a fix other than deleting the user account, or re-installing OS?
tm

Answering my own question, this looks like a permissions issue. After repairing permissions the external disk was identified by its proper name (no numerals) and all functions were restored.

Problems With User Account? Try Resolving Font Conflicts!

After installing SL as an upgrade, one of my user accounts could not install software, switch to the other account, or do anything where the system would ask for the account password.
I tried resolving this by doing several things like remove all other language keyboards, deleting all files in the user/library/preferences folder, removing the user/lib/pref/byhost files, and the standard repair permisssions, etc.
I then remembered a message which said something about font conflict when first logging into that user account after the SL upgrade.
So, I went into Font Book and noticed that most of the fonts in the user category had the yellow triangle indicating duplicate copies of those fonts.
I resolved it by deleting all fonts in the user/library/font file. Those fonts were available in the computer anyway so I hope I'm not missing anything. Even still, a missing font is better than the alternative of not being able to install software and make other admin changes from the account.
I hope this helps.

I have a similar issue with both my user accounts.
Spent about 3 hours with Apple customer support and still have the issue with installing updates and everything requiering authentication.
I noticed no conflict message as you did though...

Problems with user account / losing preferences

Hallo!
Recently, my iBook is doing strange things. Suddenly, all my preferences (bookmarks, themes, wallpaper etc) disappear, i don´t know why. I have to reinstall everything, and then (some time later) it all starts from the beginning (disappearing).
I think this might be due to the presence of other user accounts (i bought the iBook from a friend), but it is impossible to delete them.
And there is my question: what about a complete re-installing of the iBook? I have the 2 installing CDs, that should be ok, shouldn´t it?
As i am totally new on apple, i need your opinion:
what will disappear when re-installing the iBook? Will NeoOffice still be there?
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Hi there, It sounds like the account/shortname/home folder was renamed at one time.
Have you tried making a new Admin account yet in System Preferences>Accounts?
I have the 2 installing CDs, that should be ok, shouldn´t it?
If they are the right ones, that may do it, what are the 2z-***-***-A numbers on them and the info on your iBook...
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac.
Then click on More Info>Hardware and report this upto *but not including the Serial#*...
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Quad
Machine Model: PowerMac11,2
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs: 4
CPU Speed: 2.5 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
Memory: 10 GB
Bus Speed: 1.25 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.7f1
what will disappear when re-installing the iBook? Will NeoOffice still be there?
With an Erase & Install, everything will be erased and you start out with only what the iBook originally came with. An Archive & Install will just replace the OS files.

Problems with User Accounts connecting to the server

I created couple of user accounts but the users can not connect to their accounts from the computer lab. i want to know how properly set the accounts to login to any computer in the lab.

Welcome to the forums. You need to:
1. Bind your desktop machines to your Open Directory master
2. Create groups and user accounts in WorkGroup Manager which allow your users to log into those computers
You will find the User Admin documents here useful:
http://www.apple.com/server/documentation/
hth,
b.

I-tunes 7.6 problem with user accounts

I recently upgraded to i-tunes 7.6; it works fine on my user account but not under the other 2 (my wife and son). I have tried all the support suggestions but have had no success. When attempting to open i-tunes under their user names I get windows is configuring and then the pop-up closes but no i-tunes; if you try to open i-tunes again you get the same thing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ok im going to post this on as many foruma as i can but i found a temporary fix to the issue. So i downloaded the new itunes 7.6. And after a week of nonstop searching for a soulution here is one. So i downloaded the update of 7.6 and then using the *Add and Remove Programs* feature under the *conrol panel* i removed itunes *only itunes* not quicktime. So after that i went to filehippo.com searched and found *itunes 7.4.3* and downloaded that. After that my itunes opened, it has some issues but hey at least i have my itunes. I downloaded 7.4.3 because ive heard form some people that 7.5 has issues to. But i hope this helps some ppl.

"There is a problem with your account..." when opening online OneNote file within local OneNote app

Hi,
We have a tenancy DirSync connection a small number of staff so that they can have access to SharePoint, Visio and OneNote Online. When one such user logs onto the http://[groupsite].sharepoint.com site on his Windows 7 PC with Office 2013 installed,
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... and then sign in with the same account to this box
... and then enters his correct credentials into the next "Sign In" window, it returns with the following message:
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Finally, the following message is returned within the MS OneNote app:
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The user has reinstalled MS OneNote 2013 on the PC with no change. We have also removed all cached credentials from within Windows Credential Manager and rebooted with no success. The user can access all web-based resources such as SharePoint, OneNote and
Visio, and he can open web-based Visio files locally on the locally-installed Visio app with no issues. This problem is specifically experienced when opening an online version of OneNote locally on a PC that has either MS OneNote 2010 or OneNote 2013.
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Thanks Maurice, for your reply.
My Windows Account is already used to log into OneNote. It is the same Windows Account used to log into, and access online, the SharePointOnline, OneNote Online, etc., services. I tried, indeed, to sign out from my account within the client-version of OneNote
but it returns the message "We can't remove Windows accounts".
Again, this is the only account that has been used with this installation of OneNote, and it is that which has been uploaded by way of DirSync to Azure. It works for online versions of OneNote items, SharePoint and Visio, and for VisioOnline-based files
that are opened within the local client-version of Visio. When trying to open the OneNote Online notebook within the local client-version of OneNote we get this issue.
I have reinstalled Office with no success.
Any help that you can provide in this regard would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Brian

Problem with users disabling ARD client service

I've got a problem and i'm not quite sure of the work around. I'm a PC guy by nature and can't quite figure this out.
I'm having a problem with users disabling the ARD service from the sharing menu. Unfortunately users need to have admin privleges to do their work so I can't simply give them a standard account.
I've hidden the ARD user account i created from the login window through Netinfo, but I need to find a way to stop users from shutting the ard service down.
They don't seem to understand that the company requires that it be on the computer. Now, I'm the one who is set as the admin for ARD in the building, however we really just use it to rollout drivers, install packages, and its a lifesaver for remotely fixing problems with programs. The company didn't really buy it to spy on the employee's.
Is there any way to hide the service from an admin level account? Or keep them from shutting it down?
BTW, this would have to be done on multiple machines running both panther and tiger.
Any help would be appreciated as I'm not quite sure where to start.

First, as a matter of policy, let them know this service is active, and needs to remain active. If they disobey this instruction and turn it off, you have a human resources issue, not a technical issue.
Second, there are very few enterprise users that need admin access to their machines. Oh, they ALL think they do, and there will be howling when non-admin status is first imposed, but we have 350 users in a publishing environment with less that 20 setup as admins. Those users are almost all superusers who assist others in a technical role.
We have far fewer software problems like this and with ARD, IT can install/ authorize installation of software remotely should a user need that. It simply does not dramatically impact our users to have non-admin access. On the other hand, we recognize that a FEW users will need more access, and grant that on a case-by-case basis.

Problems with User & permissions

Hi,
I am hoping someone can help me, I wasn't sure what category to post this under as i don't know what is the culprit but I am having issues that I think begun with mobileme and have snowballed.
I trialled mobile me when i got my imac, but i found i didn't really use it enough to justify continuing when the trial finished, when i stopped using it, i just unticked a box (and i think maybe i should've turned off all the sync settings first).
I then began to notice that events wouldn't delete from Ical, and i was getting strange double ups on my Ipod. I followed the instructions from the discussions to reset the sync settings and delete .plist etc but it didn't fix it.
I ended up deleting the preferences and the calenders and re-importing them. This fixed it.
I recently updated to 10.5.7 and software updates also updated bluetooth firmware update.
I now find that my dock settings don't stay when i restart (may have been an issue before but i hadn't tried to change anything so don't know). I can set the dock up the way i want it, but when i restart it goes back to the way it was - not just positions on bar, but icons etc not there, things i have taken off are back.
Reading the discussions, i created a new user and it doesn't have the same problems.Points to issue with user account ?
I have deleted the com.apple.dock.plist, run repair permissions several times, but it still doesn't fix the error.
Also after start-up the bluetooth firmware update is open and running, everytime.
When i look Account settings under login items, bluetooth firmware application is there, but if i remove it, it comes back. Also there is Appigo Sync (under kind it says unknown).
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none of your problems appear to have anything to do with permissions.
start by resetting your mobileme sync data
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1497
if that doesn't help delete the entire contents of the folder /users/username/library/application/support/isync/synclocalcopy and log out/in.

Problem migrating user account SID

Problem migrating user account SID
I’m trying to migrate user accounts SID from a Windows 2003 domain to a Windows 2008 domain using the command line admt.exe. There is a trust between the 2 domains and I’m able to migrate a user account using admt 3.1 wizard including SID. The wizard asks me for a user account in the source domain with administrative right for the SID migration. In the wizard I use the same credentials as my current session. This works fine!!
But, when I’m using the command line “admt user” in an administrative cmd box i’m not prompted for any credentials in the source domain. My current credentials have the proper right in the source domain so that should not be any problem but admt is not able to migrate the user SID and gives the following error:
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Any ideas ??

I to am seeing this error - running on a Target DC.
Command line: admt group /O: GroupOption2.txt /F: test.txt /TO:corporate/Groups
Option File:
[Migration]
SourceDomain=Source.com
TargetDomain=corp.target.com
PasswordOption=Copy
PasswordServer=blade3.source.com
ConflictOptions=MERGE
[User]
MigrateSIDs=Yes
[Group]
MigrateSIDs=Yes
UpdatePreviouslyMigratedObjects=Yes
FixGroupMembership=Yes
MigrateMembers=No
UpdateUserRights=YES
[Security]
TranslationOption=Add
Error from the logs:
2010-02-15 11:47:14 ERR2:7615 SID History cannot be updated for test group deleteme. You must be an administrator in the source domain.
The account I am logged in to the target DC is a member of the Administrators group on both domains and of the Domain Admins on the source.
Any ideas? Searching (with Bing and that other one) only turns up two relevant hits, this thread and a win2000 tech net article.
Extra info:
Source: Windows 2003 (OS) - Windows 2000 native functional levels (domain and forest)
Target: Windows 2008 (OS) - Windows 2003 functional
Sorry for the retarded formatting.

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Top up your debit and contact iTune support:
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