User password blank

New iBook with 10.4.2
Bought with OS installed (don't know admin password and can't contact seller at the time), with only one account.
Yesterday my father created several differnt accounts and left the password field in blank.
Now he can't login. He leaves the password field blank and it doesn't login
Tryed with installation cd to reset admin password but when the hard disc volume is selected no accounts appear to select and reset their password

Well...anyone has any ideas what it might be?

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Hi, I forgot my user password mac 10.9.4 I don't need it to log in but i need it to make changes, etc. It says a password hasn't been set for this account but it still asks for one when i click on the lock icon. can anyone help me? thx!

Hi, I forgot my user password mac 10.9.4 I don't need it to log in but i need it to make changes, etc. It says a password hasn't been set for this account but it still asks for one when i click on the lock icon. can anyone help me? thx!

This is a little confusing since you say you have forgotten your password and then the system says you have not entered a password. Even with an Admin account you must have a password to install software.
If you are using Mac OS X 10.7 or above, you can change the admin password by restarting holding the Command and R keys, from the menu bar select Utilities, then Terminal. When the Terminal window opens, at the cursor type exactly:
resetpassword
and press Enter. When the Reset Password window opens, select the internal hard drive, and then the user account. Type a new password twice, leave the Hint blank, and then Save. Accept the next dialog that opens, and at the bottom of the Reset Password window agree to resetting the home directory permissions.
Quit the Reset Password window, go to the apple left side of the menu bar, Restart.
And you have a new password for your account.

What if i forgot my computer user password?

a couple hours ago i was trying to get this app called MacKeeper on my computer, but when it asked for my computer user password, i completely blanked! I have no clue what it is, and i probably won't remember it. Is there any way i can fix this problem without having to reset my computer and start over?

Mac OS X 10.7 Help: If you forget your login password

Sign in screen showing "Other User" and blank picture in Build 10049

In 9926 and 9974 builds, sign-in screen properly showed my picture and my account name and welcome. I don't use a password so it skips on to the desktop automatically. No problems. Starting with 10041, that screen shows a very big "Other
User" and doesn't show my picture. The various available Account Settings all show what should be there like in prior builds. There is only one account on my machine so there is no account listed as "Other User". I didn't complain
in 10041 because I hoped 10049 would cure this but it did not.
Any ideas?

Yes, Yolanda, the screen looks like your example., The local policy logon disable instruction does hold. I tried it both enabled and disabled and didn't help. However, i made another account with the following results:
Upon Shutdown or Restart, I still get "Other User" with blank picture like your screenshot.
If I then "SIgn Out" which produces the Lock Screen and then click on the screen, I get the correct sign-in with my MS account and picture shown. First time I've ever been able to get that correctly.
If I change User's to my new test account, it shows properly with account info. If I then click on change user to my original account, it then shows the proper account info AND my picture as it should.
Other User never shows as an option on User list but continues to appear when Shutdown or restart is used!
Thank you very much for your continued interest. However, I don't believe either of us should waste any more time with this hoping that it will somehow disappear in the next build installation.
C.B.

Workgroup Manager: Adv, User Password Type grayed out (was Shadow Password)

I've set Workgroup Manager, Advanced, User Password Type: Shadow Password, Options to inactive after 90 days, fail after 5 attempts, allow user to change password, at least 8 characters every 90 days. Today after user logged in to the console, the user locked herself out remotely via sftp, ssh, & xterm from a WinXP PC running ReflectionX.
I went to the console, used Fast User Switching to bring up my admin account (her account was still logged in), we reset the password with Workgroup Manager so the red X is no longer on her username.
However, the Advanced User Password Type: drop down list is blank and grayed out and she can't log in? How do I reset this? The user has a lot of files, I'm afraid to delete and recreate the user account. That seems pretty drastic for an invalid password attempt. I've rebooted and ran Apple Updates for good measure. Any ideas how to put Shadow Password back in that box?

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I was blown away to get an email survey from Apple support asking me to rate my opinion of my help request. I didn't get any help! They told me my 3 years of AppleCare don't apply to the Server OS I installed separately after buying the mac. Mac OS X Server has 90 days of support that I never used but had expired. They offered to sell me a help ticket for $99.
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HT204053 How do I create an Apple ID for my kids which are linked to my Apple ID so that they can make purchases without me having to tell them my user/password?

How do I create an Apple ID for my kids which are linked to my Apple ID so that they can make purchases without me having to tell them my user/password?

Welcome to the community.
Unfortunately, you cannot do that. The first hurdle that you are going to face, is that mobile devices, by virtue of being prone to loss, will always require that a password is entered before a purchase of any kind is made.
If your concern about the password, is related to your privacy in regard to your mail, contacts and calendar information rather than their acces to make purchases, then the best solution would be for you to use another Apple ID for iCloud.
Apple have called the whole cloud thing iCloud, there are a number of features under the iCloud umbrella, some of which require their own login. iTunes is one of these, another is what Apple have unfortunately also called iCloud too.
You can use the same Apple ID (account) to login to both iCloud and iTunes, but you don't need to and often users will login to each service using a different ID.
The part that you need to remember is that the services available when you log into iCloud are completely different and unrelated to those when you log in to iTunes. Your iCloud login enables mail, contacts, calendars, find my phone, Back to My Mac, Documents & Data sharing and photostream, it does not affect any of your iTunes services.

Why have a default user password feauture?

Hi,
I (understood) read in the manual that there could be a default user password -
28 BF 4E 5E 4E 75 8A 41 64 00 4E 56 FF FA 01 08
2E 2E 00 B6 D0 68 3E 80 2F 0C A9 FE 64 53 69 7A.
If the file is encrypted based one this key, readers can open the file without having to prompt for password though the file is encrypted. I want to know whats the point of this? It provides no security. All it ensures is the reader be sophisticated enough to have a security handler. I don't see the point. Is there any advantage of having such a pdf with default user password?.What was the motivation behind this?
Thanks

The Standard Security method of PDF supports TWO passwords - the user/open password and the owner/permissions password. In addition, an encrypted PDF can have a set of rights (DRM) associated with it (eg. Don't print, don't copy, etc.)
If you wish to control WHO can open the PDF, then you assign a user/open password. If you wish to allow ANYONE to open the PDF, then you leave it as the default.
Once the PDF is open (regardless of the open password), then the reader is responsible for respecting the DRM settings on the document. However, if you are the owner of the PDF (and there is a permissions password), then you can get back FULL permissions by simply providing the owner password.
Make sense now?

User Passwords Rejected on AFP share mounts?

User Passwords Rejected on AFP share mounts?
(OK, my last post got buried, and perhaps too long), try again. Very brief
Issue:
After so many days, a User's AFP share password is rejected? What gives.
If you reset it, several days later, same thing, rejected.
Is Netinfo Database corrupted, what can / should be done?
- Stand Alone server (with AFP and FTP services running, all other services off, not running.
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thanks,
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Using Tiger Server, I have found that enabling ACLs, or Access Control Lists on the volume, and then specifying users and/or groups into the specific ACLs for the share point has been very helpful. Also note that 10.4.10 server seems to work better than 10.4.11, so if you haven't upgraded, don't go beyond 10.4.10. .11 seems to have some permissions issues and other problems.
I assume you are connecting to the server via AFS (i.e. Go > Connect to Server > ip address) and not SMB? SMB sometimes is more problematic about ownership. But either way, Mac or PC clients, it seems ACLs are the way to go.
Crazy as it seems, on my server, even if the owner is, say, admin, and the group with r/w permissions is, say, Prepress, it helps to specifically add the Prepress group to the ACL for that share. Then be sure to propagate the permissions down (unless you don't want to, for some reason). To do this, click the little gear icon and propagate all the permissions -- owner, group, acl, etc. down. This will take a bit of time depending on how much stuff you have. I also find that a server reboot can be helpful.
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User Password change fails in OWA 2013

User Password change fails in OWA with this error: Your password couldn't be changed. Make sure the old password you typed is correct and that the new password meets the minimum security requirements.
We are migrating from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013. Have mailboxes in both environments. OWA 2007 password changes succeed (user mailbox is still in Exchange 2007). When the user mailbox is moved to Exchange 2013, password changes fail
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sure when user password changes stopped working, or even if they ever did work, although we recently installed our Prod Exch 2013 servers alongside our 2007 servers without any RBAC delegation implemented and a quick test of a user password change was successful.
I reversed all the changes to the Default Role Assignment Policy but the password change still fails.

Hi,
Please try the following steps in your CAS server:
1. Click Start > Run and type regedit and click OK.
2. Navigate to the "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchange OWA" key.
3. Set the ChangeExpiredPasswordEnabled value from 1 to 0.
4. Close regedit and re-open it.
5. Set the ChangeExpiredPasswordEnabled value from 0 to 1.
6. Close regedit.
7. After you configure this DWORD value, please reset IIS. The recommended method to reset IIS is to use IISReset /noforce from a command prompt.
Here is the similar thread about password change issue in Exchange 2013 CU3, please refer to:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/30b74c81-9b98-46f4-9ca0-1c3bb74f4a3f/users-with-expired-passwords-or-change-password-at-next-logon-unable-to-change-password-via-owa-in?forum=exchangesvrclients
Hope it helps.
Thanks,
Winnie Liang
TechNet Community Support

How to change user password from default realm programaticaly

Hello,
I would like to know if there are any ways to change a users password from a file
realm through java classes ie . programaticaly.

Thank you for the support.
After looking at the code, I noticed RealmManager is not documented in the BEA
Javadocs. Am I missing something or is it not documented. Lot of other methods
also not documented. Do you have the latest Javadocs?
Thanks
John
"Tom Moreau" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
See message #4589 - it posts the code magic needed
to change the password. The caller doesn't have to
be aware of which realm is being used - that's taken
care of for you.
-Tom
"John M" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I would like to know if there are any ways to change a users passwordfrom
a file
realm through java classes ie . programaticaly.

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Change User Password screen is in fact user self services screen of NW UME and to access it, user must have Manage_My_Password action. Installation and Security Guide ask to assign this action to all roles.

How to prevent user password being reset to the same password?

Hi,
As you all know, domain admin has the power to reset user password. Let's think of the following scenario:
if an admin lets a user reset his password to use the same string, this action means he could nullify company policy on password which requires user's last N passwords being recorded in the history.
We could very well imagine that the admin reset his own personal password in order to bypass company policy.
I have asked partner forum to see if there's a way to prevent such thing, but the reply I got is "No".
I wanted to know if anyone of you have any idea to prevent such thing from happening?
Or if it's possible to get the hash value of users past N password to see if he's always using the same password?
Thanks in advance for your ideas.

Good rules is better alternative to complex policy.
Combine password history with time interval between changes.
Regards
Milos
You don't understand what I mean.
He knows exactly what you mean.
check out this link below:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757692%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
Enforce password history
The Enforce password history policy setting determines the number of unique new passwords that must be associated with a
user account before an old password can be reused .
The possible values for this Group Policy setting are:
A user-defined number from 0 through 24.
Not defined.
Discussion
Password reuse is an important concern in any organization. Many users want to reuse the same password for their account over a long period of time. The longer the same password is used for
a particular account, the greater the chance that an attacker will be able to determine the password through brute force attacks. If users are required to change their password, but nothing prevents them from using the old password or continually reusing a
small number of passwords, the effectiveness of a good password policy is greatly reduced.
Specifying a low number for Enforce password history allows users to continually use the same small number of passwords repeatedly. If you do not also set Minimum
password age, users can change their password as many times in a row as necessary in order to reuse their original password.
If you set Enforce password history to a number greater than zero, users must come up with a new password every time they are required to change their old one. This
improves security, but it can increase the risk that users will write down their passwords so they do not forget them.
If you set the value to the maximum of 24, it helps to ensure that vulnerabilities caused by password reuse are kept to a minimum.
For this policy setting to be effective in your organization, configure Minimum password age so that you do not allow passwords to be changed immediately. Enforce
password history should be set at the level that combines a reasonable maximum password age with a reasonable password change interval requirement for users.
Location
GPO_name\Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Account Policies\Password Policy\
Every second counts..make use of it. Disclaimer: This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights.
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Multiple users\passwords on the same website with Safari

Coming over from Netscape for MAC to Safari.
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A service might call the other one.

[SOLVED] How to get sudo and kdesu to honor my user password?

Hi folks,
Well, I must be missing something. I think I've tried everything listed here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=143487 and in the referenced links, but I still have the problem of my system rejecting my password for some uses of sudo and kdesu but not others. I've included my /etc/sudoers file below.
My problem may be due to screwing around with users: I started out using bruce (1000), then switched to bbraley (1001), then deleted bruce in kusers, then changed bbraley to 1000. When that created more problems without solving the original one, I switched back to 1001. I've played with adding and removing my user from groups, including creating a sudo group, making sure I am a member of wheel group, etc.
What seemed to be everyone's magic fix,
pacman -S pambase
didn't work when I tried it successfully with my bbraley password, then later, when that began failing, using the root password. pambase reinstalls, but there is no resulting change in the behavior of sudo.
Side question: Most of my experience is with kubuntu in which I never created a root user and never had any trouble having my user password work with sudo or kdesu. Is there a reason Archwiki beginners guide suggests assigning a separate root account and password?
Can anyone help?
Here's the output of
groups
root adm disk wheel log locate network video audio optical storage scanner power users nm-openconnect systemd-network bbraley sudo sddm
Here's the output of
cat /etc/group |grep `id -un`
root:x:0:bbraley
adm:x:4:root,daemon,bbraley
disk:x:6:root,bbraley
wheel:x:10:root,bbraley
log:x:19:root,bbraley
locate:x:21:bbraley
network:x:90:bbraley
video:x:91:bbraley
audio:x:92:bbraley
optical:x:93:bbraley
storage:x:95:bbraley
scanner:x:96:bbraley
power:x:98:bbraley
users:x:100:bbraley
systemd-network:x:193:bbraley
nm-openconnect:x:104:bbraley
sddm:x:619:bbraley
bbraley:x:500:
sudo:*:501:bbraley
Here's what
ls -l /etc/sudoer
yields:
-r--r----- 1 root root 2948 Mar 22 07:25 /etc/sudoers
And here's my sudoers file:
## Defaults specification
## You may wish to keep some of the following environment variables
## when running commands via sudo.
## Locale settings
# Defaults env_keep += "LANG LANGUAGE LINGUAS LC_* _XKB_CHARSET"
## Run X applications through sudo; HOME is used to find the
## .Xauthority file. Note that other programs use HOME to find
## configuration files and this may lead to privilege escalation!
# Defaults env_keep += "HOME"
## X11 resource path settings
# Defaults env_keep += "XAPPLRESDIR XFILESEARCHPATH XUSERFILESEARCHPATH"
## Desktop path settings
# Defaults env_keep += "QTDIR KDEDIR"
## Allow sudo-run commands to inherit the callers' ConsoleKit session
# Defaults env_keep += "XDG_SESSION_COOKIE"
## Uncomment to enable special input methods. Care should be taken as
## this may allow users to subvert the command being run via sudo.
# Defaults env_keep += "XMODIFIERS GTK_IM_MODULE QT_IM_MODULE QT_IM_SWITCHER"
## Uncomment to enable logging of a command's output, except for
## sudoreplay and reboot. Use sudoreplay to play back logged sessions.
# Defaults log_output
# Defaults!/usr/bin/sudoreplay !log_output
# Defaults!/usr/local/bin/sudoreplay !log_output
# Defaults!REBOOT !log_output
## Runas alias specification
## User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
## Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to execute any command
##%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
## Same thing without a password
%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
## Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL
bbraley ALL=(ALL) ALL
## Uncomment to allow any user to run sudo if they know the password
## of the user they are running the command as (root by default).
Defaults targetpw # Ask for the password of the target user
ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL # WARNING: only use this together with 'Defaults targetpw'
## Read drop-in files from /etc/sudoers.d
## (the '#' here does not indicate a comment)
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
Last edited by Bruce1956 (2015-03-28 05:16:03)

Trilby wrote:I've never used the targetpw setting, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was the problem. With that setting, if you want to run something as root (the default use of sudo) then you'd need the root password, not the user password. Comment out that setting, and the next line.
I had never used it, either, but I misread some reference and thought it might help. Since you say it causes the behaviour I'm trying to eliminate, I will get rid of it, as suggested. However, the behavior preceded my addition of this line in the file, so I don't think this will correct the problem. Edit: Removing it kept the root password from being universally required (I can now edit /etc/sudoers using my user password) and returned it to requiring it sometimes (I still need the root password to use kdesu).
As for some other distro not having a root account, that is simply impossible. There was a root account. If you didn't have the password for it, then that installation was severely crippled.
Sorry, you're right. I should have said that kubuntu does not expect users to assign a password to the root account and instead expects primary users to access that account's privileges via su, sudo, or kdesu only.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
By default, the root account password is locked in Ubuntu. This means that you cannot login as root directly or use the su command to become the root user. However, since the root account physically exists it is still possible to run programs with root-level privileges. This is where sudo comes in - it allows authorized users (normally "Administrative" users; for further information please refer to AddUsersHowto) to run certain programs as root without having to know the root password.
Thanks for responding to my request for help. Any other ideas?
Edit: Here's what I keep getting that only accepts the root password, not my user password
http://s15.postimg.org/4z0o86oln/Runasroot_KDEsu.png
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Last edited by Bruce1956 (2015-03-23 04:41:06)

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