Okay, I have an iMac running Snow Leopard, and way back in the stone age (2009) after I turned it on I set up an account with a username and password, then forgot about it except when installing software, where it asked for my username and password. Ditto with my son's machine, very close model (2008) which I recently bequeathed to my parents after said kid wanted to build a Windows PC to play games (!)
We wiped the drive, did a fresh install of Snow Leopard, and I gave parents their own username and password, but is this an Admin account? Is this wrong? Should they be using a plain User account and should I be giving them a new username password for that? (Don't want to confuse the old birds) Should I be doing the same on my machine as well? I'm looking now and I'm logged in a Administrator, I think I've been logged in this way since 2008. Guess I thought Root and Administrator were the same thing (not at all!) and on Googling, find out really we have three layers of user types. Also I see Apple suggests disabling Root and not using an Admin account for daily work, instead creating a plain User for that. Ow! My head hurts. Is that what you all do? Have three different sets of Usernames/Passwords for three levels? On any of our machines there's only one user, so I guess we've been running them in Admin all this time. I'm afraid to disable Root, and have no clue if I assigned it a Username/Password, I thought I did but maybe that is Admin ... Help? Anne Keller Smith iMac 2.66gHz 2009 -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
