I am running OSX 10.8.5 and would like to set up an administrator account with restricted rights. For example I would want to allow the account to administer user accounts but would not want to allow it to install software. Is this possible in OSX?
View 2 RepliesI have an external drive mounted via firewire and formatted with HFS.
I would like this drive to be accessible by an administrator, say admin, only and have used Finder to set permissions. So the user and group for the /Volume/<drive> is admin:admin.
I have created a standard user, say user. However I find that when the standard user logs in he can access the volume and the rights for the drive become user:user instead of admin:admin, so that drive is accessible by any login user no matter what permissions I set as an administrator.
After messing around with parental controls, my only user account has turned from administrator to standard. How do I change it back?
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Mac OS X (10.7)
I am my computer's administrator, and I have a secondary 'guest' account that anyone else can use. So, I know that all my data on my main, OS hard drive is secure from the guest account accessing it, but what about the additional hard drive that I have installed?
I have a good deal of sensitive data and files stored (and aliased) on my second internal drive that I do not care for 'guest' users to stumble upon. How can I restrict access to the secondary storage hard drive from my Guest login account, and/or just plain hide it from it? Surely, there is a need for this that has brought about a solution.
We had a HDD fail on one of our office Mac laptops (a power pc G4). Apple repaired it and I restored all files etc from a backup. I was the administrator during the restore. Before I could get back, the user changed that account to a standard account and changed the name. Now there is no way to change the account back, because there is no admin to authenticate the change. Anything I can do? I am not an advanced computer/Mac person.
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In the "homelibrarymailV2" folder, I do see the POP or IMAP folder for the account I want to encrypt, but I was wondering if I also need to add the "Mailboxes" or "MailData" folders that are also there since they seem to have information in them related to my accounts as well.Â
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
I am trying to add a gmail account using "System Preferences".
For reference, find the snapshot attached.
I need to delete ALL settings in Mail...Â
I have an issue where I can receive mail but cannot send mail to any yahoo account on this Macbook Pro.
My other devices (other macs) work just fine.Â
This particular Mac - gets a 554 Error (229) under my user when I send mail to Yahoo. But under Guest, it works just fine.
I've deleted my account (gmail) and reinstalled it - but the error keeps coming back.Â
There must be some setting cached somewhere that reverts the settings back.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
There are a couple of websites I want to restrict my younger children from. I tried to enter them in the parental controls in System Preferences using the "Try to limit access to adult websties automatically" option, and entering the sites I wanted to restrict them from. What I got was kids asking me every five seconds to approve another website - it seems that only sites on the approved list under Customize were allowed. That isn't what I wanted. I wanted only to enter two or three sites that they are specifically precluded from.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I am sole user of the Mac usually and use an admin account. Though I've read in a few places that you should set up a standard account and use that for day to day activities. What does everybody else do?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.4/2.2 GHz), Mac OS X (10.7.3), iPad2/iOS 5
We had a HDD fail on one of our office Mac laptops (a power pc G4). Apple repaired it and I restored all files etc from a backup. I was the administrator during the restore. Before I could get back, the user changed that account to a standard account and changed the name. Now there is no way to change the account back, because there is no admin to authenticate the change. Anything I can do? I am not an advanced computer/Mac person.
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Mac OS X (10.2.x)
i was trying to set up another account on my macbook but i made the new account the admin account with the parental guidance how do i change my original account back the administrator?
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.0.1
Im using company's MACÂ OSX 10.6.8 and the administrator account is locked and now how to trace back the password?What should i do?If I had install email,printer etc. softwares & if I reset the password, would the all software gone?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Two days ago when I woke up and open my MacBook Pro (OS Maverick), I started with a strange windows (than we can get with cmd+r). My hard drive was broken so I followed the proposed steps. I made a backup with TimeMachine. I lost a lot of data 'cause I wasn't able to go back on the Finder and save the things I need. So, I lost important things... Well, after Time Machine backup, I had few more troubles. Now, I can't use a lot of my software. I try to update everything, BUT my user profil isn't administrator anymore.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
OS 10.4. I know it has worked in the past month. My user account ( first one set up on system) no longer has administrator privileges. I went to do daylight savings update last week, and reply back says must enter administrator name and password......... Stuck because I can not even do a archive and reinstall because you need admin to do anything
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I was wondering if I would be able to remote access my lost laptop if the administrator account has been deleted. Being absent minded I left my bag at the bus station and I figure who ever has found it is keeping it by now since I haven't gotten a phone call yet and it's been over a week.
delete the previous administrator and make a user account for myself on my iMac G4
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iMac, iOS 3.1.3
I have a new iMac and though I've set my full name to my actual name under System Preferences >> Users & Groups, it still comes up as "administrator" when make comments in a document or in the "To" section of a quoted email that I reply to. Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
How do I prevent someone from circumventing the Lion administrator account in order to gain full access to the iMac and Internet, to change the Airport wi-fi network name, and to set up a separate administrator account?Â
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.2), 3.4 GHz Intel i7, 16 GB DDR3
How to reset administrator password in lion?
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7)
I've recently upgraded to Mac OS Lion Server, and I'm having a big problem that's keeping me from finishing my last bit of work on a project. I've been trying to create network users so that they can sign in on any computer, and access their files via the server, but I've been told time and time again to create a Directory Administrator.Â
When I try to create one, I get this error
