Re: Mountain Lion User Administration
You might try some command line tools from the terminal with an admin equipped user. Example: type 'passwd USER' where USER is the ID you're trying to fix. You should be prompted for a new user. Try entering a new password and see if it takes OK. You won't get any messages if successful. Then from a non-admin user, try something like su - USER With this, you should receive a password prompt and if you enter correctly and if the password is good, you should be logged into a command shell for that user. All this effort will be helpful in debugging and determining if the account is good or not. Forgive me, but I'm a linux geek and all this unix stuff comes in handy to trouble shoot system problems like this. You can also work with file permissions and bulk file manipulations too. On 8/19/12, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: I don't always get the click in that box, but it does capture the characters as it replaces them with bullets. I have had sighted people try it with the same results. I am now wondering if there is a way that I can go in and grab the file that stores the Mac Mail from the administrator's account. Anybody know where it is stored and whether I would be able to just grab it and import into the administrator email account? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 6:56 PM, Christopher Edwards edwardsc2...@googlemail.com wrote: Jeff, I don't know if this will help or not. I have only been using a Mac since April. Suddenly, in the middle of July I could not enter passwords however many times I tried. At the Genius Bar the technician could, like me, hear the clicks that indicated that I was typing characters but we could nnot enter them unless he clicked the mouse. He suggested that I should re-install Lion but in the end I waited and upgraded to ML. So far I have not had any problems but I still do not always get a click sound when I enter a character. I just wonder if you are getting the same problem I had last month. Anyway, I hope you can resolve it soon. Chris - Original Message - From: John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 10:31 PM Subject: Re: Mountain Lion User Administration This is very odd. Like I said, I reset the password in the terminal for my friend and it worked after that. This might be worth a call to apple accessibility or Apple care. Unless someone else can come up with a suggestion, I am scratching my head here. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Thanks for that. Again, no avail. I just don't get it. I try to switch to the new user, I select the other user and a dialogue pops up asking me for a password. I enter the password and it just expects me to keep trying. So frustrating! Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 5:05 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry about that. YOu have to use the termianal menu item from the untility menu. Then, you type, resetpassword That will get you into the area to choose the account and reset the password. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Thanks for the tip. I don't see anything about resetting use passwords when I hold [command] r after rebooting the computer. Could you direct me further please? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:56 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: You might have to change that account password using the recovery partition then. I had this recently happen on a Mac I migrated settings from a time machine backup. I had to change her password through the resetpassword option in the recovery partition. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: I have managed to find the list of users now and reset the password. Strangely enough, the password still does not work. It is the stingiest thing…I reset the password, try to log in as that user and I absolutely cannot. Anybody experienced this before? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:49 PM
Re: Mountain Lion User Administration
What comes to mind is did you unlock the system preferences for the users and groups. You will probably need to do this to view the other accounts. As for the mailboxes, there is an import mailbox item in the file menu of mail. I don't know if this would work or not, though, as I have not tried importing from another account on the Mac. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Hi all, Last weekend, we bought my wife a new Mac Book Air. I set it all up and it has been working fine. Today my task was to transfer her email from her old Windows machine. I used the Migration Assistant and it seemed to work fine. However, it has created a new user on the Air with a password that I do not know. I presume that all her email messages have been set up correctly within that profile. So, I went into System Panel and selected users. Her original account has administrator privileges but, I don't seem to be able to see the other user to change the password. Any thoughts? Once I get into the other profile, I will also need to know how I might be able to bring the mail into her original user account. Thoughts on that are also welcome. Thx, Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Mountain Lion User Administration
I have managed to find the list of users now and reset the password. Strangely enough, the password still does not work. It is the stingiest thing…I reset the password, try to log in as that user and I absolutely cannot. Anybody experienced this before? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:49 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: What comes to mind is did you unlock the system preferences for the users and groups. You will probably need to do this to view the other accounts. As for the mailboxes, there is an import mailbox item in the file menu of mail. I don't know if this would work or not, though, as I have not tried importing from another account on the Mac. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Hi all, Last weekend, we bought my wife a new Mac Book Air. I set it all up and it has been working fine. Today my task was to transfer her email from her old Windows machine. I used the Migration Assistant and it seemed to work fine. However, it has created a new user on the Air with a password that I do not know. I presume that all her email messages have been set up correctly within that profile. So, I went into System Panel and selected users. Her original account has administrator privileges but, I don't seem to be able to see the other user to change the password. Any thoughts? Once I get into the other profile, I will also need to know how I might be able to bring the mail into her original user account. Thoughts on that are also welcome. Thx, Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Mountain Lion User Administration
You might have to change that account password using the recovery partition then. I had this recently happen on a Mac I migrated settings from a time machine backup. I had to change her password through the resetpassword option in the recovery partition. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: I have managed to find the list of users now and reset the password. Strangely enough, the password still does not work. It is the stingiest thing…I reset the password, try to log in as that user and I absolutely cannot. Anybody experienced this before? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:49 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: What comes to mind is did you unlock the system preferences for the users and groups. You will probably need to do this to view the other accounts. As for the mailboxes, there is an import mailbox item in the file menu of mail. I don't know if this would work or not, though, as I have not tried importing from another account on the Mac. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Hi all, Last weekend, we bought my wife a new Mac Book Air. I set it all up and it has been working fine. Today my task was to transfer her email from her old Windows machine. I used the Migration Assistant and it seemed to work fine. However, it has created a new user on the Air with a password that I do not know. I presume that all her email messages have been set up correctly within that profile. So, I went into System Panel and selected users. Her original account has administrator privileges but, I don't seem to be able to see the other user to change the password. Any thoughts? Once I get into the other profile, I will also need to know how I might be able to bring the mail into her original user account. Thoughts on that are also welcome. Thx, Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Mountain Lion User Administration
Thanks for the tip. I don't see anything about resetting use passwords when I hold [command] r after rebooting the computer. Could you direct me further please? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:56 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: You might have to change that account password using the recovery partition then. I had this recently happen on a Mac I migrated settings from a time machine backup. I had to change her password through the resetpassword option in the recovery partition. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: I have managed to find the list of users now and reset the password. Strangely enough, the password still does not work. It is the stingiest thing…I reset the password, try to log in as that user and I absolutely cannot. Anybody experienced this before? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:49 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: What comes to mind is did you unlock the system preferences for the users and groups. You will probably need to do this to view the other accounts. As for the mailboxes, there is an import mailbox item in the file menu of mail. I don't know if this would work or not, though, as I have not tried importing from another account on the Mac. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Hi all, Last weekend, we bought my wife a new Mac Book Air. I set it all up and it has been working fine. Today my task was to transfer her email from her old Windows machine. I used the Migration Assistant and it seemed to work fine. However, it has created a new user on the Air with a password that I do not know. I presume that all her email messages have been set up correctly within that profile. So, I went into System Panel and selected users. Her original account has administrator privileges but, I don't seem to be able to see the other user to change the password. Any thoughts? Once I get into the other profile, I will also need to know how I might be able to bring the mail into her original user account. Thoughts on that are also welcome. Thx, Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Mountain Lion User Administration
Sorry about that. YOu have to use the termianal menu item from the untility menu. Then, you type, resetpassword That will get you into the area to choose the account and reset the password. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Thanks for the tip. I don't see anything about resetting use passwords when I hold [command] r after rebooting the computer. Could you direct me further please? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:56 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: You might have to change that account password using the recovery partition then. I had this recently happen on a Mac I migrated settings from a time machine backup. I had to change her password through the resetpassword option in the recovery partition. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: I have managed to find the list of users now and reset the password. Strangely enough, the password still does not work. It is the stingiest thing…I reset the password, try to log in as that user and I absolutely cannot. Anybody experienced this before? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:49 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: What comes to mind is did you unlock the system preferences for the users and groups. You will probably need to do this to view the other accounts. As for the mailboxes, there is an import mailbox item in the file menu of mail. I don't know if this would work or not, though, as I have not tried importing from another account on the Mac. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Hi all, Last weekend, we bought my wife a new Mac Book Air. I set it all up and it has been working fine. Today my task was to transfer her email from her old Windows machine. I used the Migration Assistant and it seemed to work fine. However, it has created a new user on the Air with a password that I do not know. I presume that all her email messages have been set up correctly within that profile. So, I went into System Panel and selected users. Her original account has administrator privileges but, I don't seem to be able to see the other user to change the password. Any thoughts? Once I get into the other profile, I will also need to know how I might be able to bring the mail into her original user account. Thoughts on that are also welcome. Thx, Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to
Re: Mountain Lion User Administration
Thanks for that. Again, no avail. I just don't get it. I try to switch to the new user, I select the other user and a dialogue pops up asking me for a password. I enter the password and it just expects me to keep trying. So frustrating! Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 5:05 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry about that. YOu have to use the termianal menu item from the untility menu. Then, you type, resetpassword That will get you into the area to choose the account and reset the password. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Thanks for the tip. I don't see anything about resetting use passwords when I hold [command] r after rebooting the computer. Could you direct me further please? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:56 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: You might have to change that account password using the recovery partition then. I had this recently happen on a Mac I migrated settings from a time machine backup. I had to change her password through the resetpassword option in the recovery partition. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: I have managed to find the list of users now and reset the password. Strangely enough, the password still does not work. It is the stingiest thing…I reset the password, try to log in as that user and I absolutely cannot. Anybody experienced this before? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:49 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: What comes to mind is did you unlock the system preferences for the users and groups. You will probably need to do this to view the other accounts. As for the mailboxes, there is an import mailbox item in the file menu of mail. I don't know if this would work or not, though, as I have not tried importing from another account on the Mac. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Hi all, Last weekend, we bought my wife a new Mac Book Air. I set it all up and it has been working fine. Today my task was to transfer her email from her old Windows machine. I used the Migration Assistant and it seemed to work fine. However, it has created a new user on the Air with a password that I do not know. I presume that all her email messages have been set up correctly within that profile. So, I went into System Panel and selected users. Her original account has administrator privileges but, I don't seem to be able to see the other user to change the password. Any thoughts? Once I get into the other profile, I will also need to know how I might be able to bring the mail into her original user account. Thoughts on that are also welcome. Thx, Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to
Re: Mountain Lion User Administration
This is very odd. Like I said, I reset the password in the terminal for my friend and it worked after that. This might be worth a call to apple accessibility or Apple care. Unless someone else can come up with a suggestion, I am scratching my head here. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Thanks for that. Again, no avail. I just don't get it. I try to switch to the new user, I select the other user and a dialogue pops up asking me for a password. I enter the password and it just expects me to keep trying. So frustrating! Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 5:05 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry about that. YOu have to use the termianal menu item from the untility menu. Then, you type, resetpassword That will get you into the area to choose the account and reset the password. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Thanks for the tip. I don't see anything about resetting use passwords when I hold [command] r after rebooting the computer. Could you direct me further please? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:56 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: You might have to change that account password using the recovery partition then. I had this recently happen on a Mac I migrated settings from a time machine backup. I had to change her password through the resetpassword option in the recovery partition. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: I have managed to find the list of users now and reset the password. Strangely enough, the password still does not work. It is the stingiest thing…I reset the password, try to log in as that user and I absolutely cannot. Anybody experienced this before? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:49 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: What comes to mind is did you unlock the system preferences for the users and groups. You will probably need to do this to view the other accounts. As for the mailboxes, there is an import mailbox item in the file menu of mail. I don't know if this would work or not, though, as I have not tried importing from another account on the Mac. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Hi all, Last weekend, we bought my wife a new Mac Book Air. I set it all up and it has been working fine. Today my task was to transfer her email from her old Windows machine. I used the Migration Assistant and it seemed to work fine. However, it has created a new user on the Air with a password that I do not know. I presume that all her email messages have been set up correctly within that profile. So, I went into System Panel and selected users. Her original account has administrator privileges but, I don't seem to be able to see the other user to change the password. Any thoughts? Once I get into the other profile, I will also need to know how I might be able to bring the mail into her original user account. Thoughts on that are also welcome. Thx, Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
Re: Mountain Lion User Administration
Jeff, I don't know if this will help or not. I have only been using a Mac since April. Suddenly, in the middle of July I could not enter passwords however many times I tried. At the Genius Bar the technician could, like me, hear the clicks that indicated that I was typing characters but we could nnot enter them unless he clicked the mouse. He suggested that I should re-install Lion but in the end I waited and upgraded to ML. So far I have not had any problems but I still do not always get a click sound when I enter a character. I just wonder if you are getting the same problem I had last month. Anyway, I hope you can resolve it soon. Chris - Original Message - From: John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 10:31 PM Subject: Re: Mountain Lion User Administration This is very odd. Like I said, I reset the password in the terminal for my friend and it worked after that. This might be worth a call to apple accessibility or Apple care. Unless someone else can come up with a suggestion, I am scratching my head here. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Thanks for that. Again, no avail. I just don't get it. I try to switch to the new user, I select the other user and a dialogue pops up asking me for a password. I enter the password and it just expects me to keep trying. So frustrating! Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 5:05 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry about that. YOu have to use the termianal menu item from the untility menu. Then, you type, resetpassword That will get you into the area to choose the account and reset the password. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Thanks for the tip. I don't see anything about resetting use passwords when I hold [command] r after rebooting the computer. Could you direct me further please? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:56 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: You might have to change that account password using the recovery partition then. I had this recently happen on a Mac I migrated settings from a time machine backup. I had to change her password through the resetpassword option in the recovery partition. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: I have managed to find the list of users now and reset the password. Strangely enough, the password still does not work. It is the stingiest thing…I reset the password, try to log in as that user and I absolutely cannot. Anybody experienced this before? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:49 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: What comes to mind is did you unlock the system preferences for the users and groups. You will probably need to do this to view the other accounts. As for the mailboxes, there is an import mailbox item in the file menu of mail. I don't know if this would work or not, though, as I have not tried importing from another account on the Mac. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Hi all, Last weekend, we bought my wife a new Mac Book Air. I set it all up and it has been working fine. Today my task was to transfer her email from her old Windows machine. I used the Migration Assistant and it seemed to work fine. However, it has created a new user on the Air with a password that I do not know. I presume that all her email messages have been set up correctly within that profile. So, I went into System Panel and selected users. Her original account has administrator privileges but, I don't seem to be able to see the other user to change the password. Any thoughts? Once I get into the other profile, I will also need to know
Re: Mountain Lion User Administration
I don't always get the click in that box, but it does capture the characters as it replaces them with bullets. I have had sighted people try it with the same results. I am now wondering if there is a way that I can go in and grab the file that stores the Mac Mail from the administrator's account. Anybody know where it is stored and whether I would be able to just grab it and import into the administrator email account? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 6:56 PM, Christopher Edwards edwardsc2...@googlemail.com wrote: Jeff, I don't know if this will help or not. I have only been using a Mac since April. Suddenly, in the middle of July I could not enter passwords however many times I tried. At the Genius Bar the technician could, like me, hear the clicks that indicated that I was typing characters but we could nnot enter them unless he clicked the mouse. He suggested that I should re-install Lion but in the end I waited and upgraded to ML. So far I have not had any problems but I still do not always get a click sound when I enter a character. I just wonder if you are getting the same problem I had last month. Anyway, I hope you can resolve it soon. Chris - Original Message - From: John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 10:31 PM Subject: Re: Mountain Lion User Administration This is very odd. Like I said, I reset the password in the terminal for my friend and it worked after that. This might be worth a call to apple accessibility or Apple care. Unless someone else can come up with a suggestion, I am scratching my head here. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Thanks for that. Again, no avail. I just don't get it. I try to switch to the new user, I select the other user and a dialogue pops up asking me for a password. I enter the password and it just expects me to keep trying. So frustrating! Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 5:05 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry about that. YOu have to use the termianal menu item from the untility menu. Then, you type, resetpassword That will get you into the area to choose the account and reset the password. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Thanks for the tip. I don't see anything about resetting use passwords when I hold [command] r after rebooting the computer. Could you direct me further please? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:56 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: You might have to change that account password using the recovery partition then. I had this recently happen on a Mac I migrated settings from a time machine backup. I had to change her password through the resetpassword option in the recovery partition. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: I have managed to find the list of users now and reset the password. Strangely enough, the password still does not work. It is the stingiest thing…I reset the password, try to log in as that user and I absolutely cannot. Anybody experienced this before? Thx, Jeff On 2012-08-19, at 4:49 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: What comes to mind is did you unlock the system preferences for the users and groups. You will probably need to do this to view the other accounts. As for the mailboxes, there is an import mailbox item in the file menu of mail. I don't know if this would work or not, though, as I have not tried importing from another account on the Mac. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 19, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Hi
