The Curious Case of the Cursed User Account

I'm having a strange problem with a 4.5 year old MacBook Pro recently upgraded to Mavericks. I recently got a new laptop and I tried a couple programs aimed at cloud- or non-cloud-based syncing between them (box.com and bittorrent sync). On the old computer, these programs failed to install or launch, but when I created a second user account and ran them from there, they both worked fine. I repaired all disk permissions, and I even repaired user folder permissions using the repair utilities boot option. Can you think of any reason why my original user account would be conflicting with these programs? Or anything that might resolve this problem? Thanks a lot.

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I need a logout script that will erase the standard user account data after logout.

I have a lab of 35 Macbook Pros and I am trying to make it where when the user logouts, it will erase the data after they logout.
I have found several articles about deleting user accounts when they login through AD, but this is not the case.
Any help would be much help!

Then when they are at those system they do not Login and if they do have to enter a password it is whatever it is for the Base user account that is setup. Right?
I'd look at the Mac KB system to see if you can restrict saving to the local HDD but yet allow saving to a thumb drive or not.
To do what you want the system would need to keep track of all files saved from time X to time Y, and those times would be every changing. Not sure you are going to get there from here.
Not sure what you mean by Lab machines. I've worked in and gone to school at a Graphic art school and they have hundreds of Lab Mac's that each student must log into with there own user account when in different classes and when saving any of there work it gets saved on the server so it can be retrieved by them when they log into another system someplace else throughout the school or when using their own computer and connected to the schools network.
I wish you the best of luck with this project.

Unable to log in to the FileVault user account

I was unable to log in to the FileVault user account at this time because an error occurred.
Q.1: What is FileVault user account?
I can't reset a new password and to unlock FileVault even my master password is correct.
Q.2: What can I do to solve this problem?
Thanks!
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KaylaHung wrote:
I was unable to log in to the FileVault user account at this time because an error occurred.
Q.1: What is FileVault user account?
A security feature of OSX. It encrypts your entire home folder.
See: [Mac OS X 10.6 Help: About FileVault|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8727.html]
Do you not remember turning this on, via +System Preferences > Security > File Vault?+
I can't reset a new password and to unlock FileVault even my master password is correct.
Q.2: What can I do to solve this problem?
[Mac OS X 10.6 Help: If you forget your password for your FileVault-protected account|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8739.html]
Thanks!
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How do i get rid of the guest user account on my mac?

The guest user account keeps appearing on my login screen and i want to get rid of it, i do not want others to be able to access my account. How am i able to do this? I have tried to go on through the user section and nothing i seem to do in there helps. Please help!

You don't want to get rid of, it's a security feature. If someone steals your Mac, all that account permits is Safari access, no other access to the computer. This enables you to locate your Mac.

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
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5474062?tstart=0

Can I use the same user accounts for both Lion & SL?

I have one Mac that I can upgrade to Lion but it is the one that the entire family uses every day (I only can use it (and administer it) on weekends), so I have to make sure that there are no problems and no issues so my plan is to:
Move all of the users accounts to a different drive.
Configure 10.6.8 (SL) to use the user accounts on the different drive.
Back up SL to a bootable drive.
Repartition the Mac for a SL & Lion partition.
Reconstitute SL on both partitions.
Upgrade one SL partition to Lion.
I should now have a partition for SL and Lion that both use the same users accounts so when I (and then my family) are comfortable with Lion, the switch will be transparent.
Any problems that I am unaware of (and how to remediate it)?
TIA.

There are a few discussions here on the topic that I was planning to employ:
Moving Home folder to different HDD From Mac OSX Snow Leopard via Terminal?
Moving some Users to different volume
How do you move a user account to a different drive?
Another way of doing it is to move the directory, and then alter the user's home directory using the NetInfo utility (Tiger) or Directory Utility (Leopard). In both, you can change the user's home directory from the command line in Terminal.app like so:
$ sudo dscl . -create /Users/user NFSHomeDirectory /Volumes/volname+/+user
In the SL System Preferences -> Accounts one can select a user's account, right click and choose Advance Options presents the screen below. This is how I intend to point each OS to the same user account on an external HDD.
Does that answer your question?
TIA.

I use migrate assistant to move files from my old pc to the new Mac , but it creates the user account. How can i delete the unwanted user account.

i use migrate assistant to move files from my old pc to the new Mac , but it creates the user account. How can i delete the unwanted user account.

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
That's the classic behaviour after using Migration Assistant and that's normal.
To transfer the data from the new user account to your old user account, you can follow some steps. Here is all the information you need to do this > https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5472

How do i delete the old users account on my second hand imac g5 without the origonal disc

im new to imacs and not sure how to delete the old users account without the origonal disc

First of all, you need to make sure your current user account (the one you intend to keep) is an administrator account (not standard).
Go to System Preferences Accounts pane. Click the lock, if it's locked, and enter your authorization, to unlock.
In the sidebar, you will see the list of user accounts. To delete a user account, select it on the list and click the minus sign.

I have just used migration assistant to import photos (using an ethernet cable) from my PC. It has worked but they have gone into a new user on my MacPro. How can I merge them into the one user account.

I have just used migration assistant to import photos (using an ethernet cable) from my PC. It has worked but they have gone into a new user on my MacPro. How can I merge them into the one user account.

How many pictures (or how many bytes) are we talking? Now that the pictures are imported one way to cross users is to use a removable drive (although large volumes of files preclude this).
The other is to login as the user where the pictures are, then copy them into the public drop box of the user where you want the picture.
The arrow is showing (in ths example) copy files from the Pictures folder for my user to the guest user accounts public dropbox. When you do this you may have to authenticate and you won't be able to see the results of the copy until you log in as the other user.
All users are in the folder "/Users/"

ORA-20160: Encountered an error while getting the ORACLE user account.

when users trying to apply for the leave . Once they apply for the leave and the respective manager approves it.
They get an notification mail with the error message The changes were not applied because ORA-20160: Encountered an error while getting the ORACLE user account for your concurrent request. Contact your system administrator. ORA-06512: at "APPS.ALR_PER_ABSENCE__800_53447_IAR", line 3 ORA-04088: error during execution of trigger 'APPS.ALR_PER_ABSENCE__800_53447_IAR'
EBS : 12.1.2
Database : 11.2.0

We are also facing the same issue , with the following error.
The Changes were not applied because ORA-20160: Encountered an error while getting the ORACLE user account for your concurrent request, Contact your system administrator. ORA-06512: at “ APPS.ALR_PAY_ELEMENT_801_53338_IAR”, line 1 ORA-04088: error during execution of the trigger ‘APPS.ALR_PAY_ELEMENT_801_53338_IAR’
Dear Hussein ,
As per your suggestion , if we disable the trigger , does it workflow goes ahead without any problems ?
By Disabling the trigger , what would be the impact ? I mean does we are going to loose the data that was supposed to be updated the trigger.
And basically please educate me . what is the use of this APPS.ALR_PAY_ELEMENT_801_53338_IAR’ ?
Regards
Raghu

Error while getting the ORACLE user account for your concurrent request

Hi ,
When I am submitting the Concurrent Program from OAF page Iam getting
Error
Encountered an error while getting the ORACLE user account for your concurrent request. Contact your system administrator.
When we will face this error.
Not able to submit the Request
Krishna

Krishna
Try like this
public int submitCPRequest(String shipmentId) {
System.out.println("into submitCPRequest");
try {
OAApplicationModule am = pageContext.getApplicationModule(webBean) ;
OADBTransaction transaction = am.getOADBTransaction();
Connection conn = transaction.getJdbcConnection();
ConcurrentRequest cr = new ConcurrentRequest(conn);
cr.setDeferred();
String applnName = new String("XXAPL"); //Application that contains the concurrent program
System.out.println("ApplName"+ applnName);
String cpName = new String("SHIP_REQ"); //Concurrent program name
System.out.println("Concc Name"+ cpName);
// String cpDesc = new String("Shipping Request"); // concurrent Program description
// Pass the Arguments using vector
// Here i have added my parameter headerId to the vector and passed the
//vector to the concurrent program
Vector cpArgs = new Vector();
cpArgs.addElement(shipmentId);
System.out.println("Args"+ cpArgs);
After this it is going into exception
// Calling the Concurrent Program
int requestId = cr.submitRequest(applnName, cpName, null, null, false, cpArgs);
System.out.println("Req Id"+ requestId);
tx.commit();
return requestId;
catch (SetDeferredException e)
throw new OAException("SetDeferredException " + e.getMessage(),OAException.ERROR);
catch (RequestSubmissionException e) {
System.out.println("Into Exception");
OAException oe = new OAException(e.getMessage());
oe.setApplicationModule(this);
throw oe;
}Thanks
AJ

Powershell Script to change the default user Account picture for all users in windows 7 and 8

Hello,
Can some sone help me with PS script to change user account pictures of all user account in windows 7 and windows 8 ?
I will deploy this through MDT TS as Custom TS after OSD.
Shailendra
Shailendra Dev

Hello,
Can some sone help me with PS script to change user account pictures of all user account in windows 7 and windows 8 ?
I will deploy this through MDT TS as Custom TS after OSD.
Shailendra
Shailendra Dev
The default user account picture is stored here.
C:\programdata\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\user.bmp
It should just be a matter have copying the picture you want to that location and over writing what is there.
or....
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Panel\User Accounts\Apply the default user logon picture to all users
You can also configure this by a registry setting;
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
UseDefaultTile = 1
The picture that you configure, will not be loaded until the user account will actually be created on the pc. Meaning the first time a >new< user will log on to a pc, they will have no picture shown at all using their login screen (this is default
behavior). Same will occur if you enable the policy don't display last user name. However, once they log in the picture will be shown in the start menu, and if they lock their pc the image will also be shown

What is the password for the new user account that is set up via Migration Assistant?

I recently purchased a new Macbook Pro, and used Migration Assistant to download My Documents from a previous PC desktop. The migration was successful, but afterwards the new user account that was set up to house all the new documents became inaccessible to me.
My administrator's password works for my computer and I am able to log in and out, change settings, etc.
However, if I try to log in to the new user account, no password works. Through the administrator's account I have also attempted to change the password, and I am allowed to do so, but when I use the new password I set up, it still denies me access.
Additionally, if I log out the administrator's account and click the new account to log in, it prompts me to make a new password for the account, and whatever I enter is also rejected as "incorrect." (The screen shakes)
I am very frustrated my inability to access this information I must use to work, and I have no idea what the password might be, or how to change it properly.
PLEASE HELP COMMUNITY! I have only had my mac for about a week and I have had it up to hear with this "user friendly" system.

You can change the password from Visual administrator. login to visual administrator, and select services,, under that you will find the system details. change the password.
even if the visual administrator password is expired then u can go thorugh configtoo.bat and there u can change the password.
if that even not possible then u need to login to sql and can execute the commands for changing password.
Regards,
mahesh

How to use the admin user account in reports and dashboards?

Hi Everyone,
I want to use the admin user account in report and dashboard connections. But the Hyperion is automatically using the current user's credentials to fetch data.
Hyperion 11.1.1.1
Thanks
Syantan

This has been posted in the essbase forum > How to use the admin user account in reports and dashboards?
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

Reconciliation for the deleted user accounts on Target Resource

Hi,
I am trying to run reconciliation on a DB Table as the target resource. It is linking the user accounts that are present in the target resource.
But for the user accounts that are deleted on the target resource Reconciliation is not showing any action on the IdM user accounts under resource profile. The resource object link still shows the status "Provisioned".
Ideally when the users are deleted on the target resource User's profile, Does it require any customizations to make the resource assignment status to "revoked" instead of "Provisioned".
Any response would be of great help.
Thanks in advance.

See there could be two possibilities only:
*1) User Status Recovery via trusted Reconciliation*
Associated field in OIM responsible for it - Status field of OIM User Profile -> Check Process Definition for Xellerate User or any Trusted resource in "Reconciliation Field Mappings" section
Valid values are : Active, Disabled and Deleted
*2) Account Status Recovery via target Reconciliation*
Associated field in OIM responsible for it - OIM_OBJECT_STATUS field from Process Data Field -> Check Process Definition for Your custom resource of DB App Table in "Reconciliation Field Mappings" section
Valid values are : Enabled, Disabled and Revoked
So you are trying to achieve the second part.
Hope its clear.
Thanks
Sunny

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