OS X V10.7 Lion :: New 'unwanted' User At Login Window
Mar 23, 2012new 'unwanted' user at login window
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Unwanted Nightly Log-offs And Then Different Login Window?
Jun 24, 2012My imac on Lion 10.7.4 has for several nights logged off by itself. Nothing is set in System Preferences to make it do this, and I have checked all settings to make sure of this: Security and Privacy/Advanced: "Log out after x minutes of inactivity" is unticked.Energy Saver: computer/display sleep are at 10 minutes, put the computer to sleep where possible is unticked.
When I return to it in the morning, the login screen is not "normal". On a few occasions, there has been a photo-screensaver image, and weirdly, only when I "paint away" pixels of this image with the mouse is the log-in window slowly revealed behind. On other occasions, the log-in window has been immediately visible, but the screen has been half-black/half login-window, but not uniformly so.
This is annoying because, although all my apps and documents are restored, this takes several minutes (my imac has also been running slower and slower recently), e.g. some apps take a couple of minutes to re-appear. Some processes that were running may need to be restarted from scratch.
Nothing has been altered in the System recently, apart from maybe standard updates as recommended by Software Update (did not take much notice). The last thing I was doing before this first occurred was running TestDisk on Terminal on this imac to try to analyse (only) an External Hard Drive (not previously associated with this imac). On two occasions, the TestDisk run (which I left to run overnight) did not finish because of the log-outs. However, TestDisk was not doing or checking anything related to this imac (apart from actually running on it, in Terminal).
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imac 1.9 GHz PowerPC G5, macbook 13" white, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: User Accounts Selection Not Visible In Login Window If Resolution Low
May 14, 2012I just installed Lion 10.4.7 upgrade on my iMac (only 6 months old). I have 5 user accounts on this iMac (A, B, C, D and Guest). With prior version of Lion, these would all be displayed in the login window for selection. Now, with 10.4.7, depending upon the resolution in effect by a user when he logs out, if it is a lower resolution (i.e., 1024X768) the login window will not contain the rightmost user selections, D and Guest in this example. If the user had a higher resolution (i.e., 1920X1080) all 5 users account selections will be visible. An individual user's desired resolution should not be effecting the login window, should it?
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iPad, iOS 4.3.1
IMac :: After Re-booting / User Name Has Disappeared From Login Window?
Dec 13, 2010Ok so today my 27" iMac (10.6.2) was acting kind of weird. In safari and chrome webpages would spontaniously crash for no reason (on my macbook, the same webpages were fine). So, to try and fix this issue, I decided to restart my imac. After all the applications quit, I was left with a blank screen with my wallpaper. It stayed like this for several minutes, so I decided to just hold the power button to force the imac to turn off. When I turned it back on, my user name was not displayed in the login window. All there was for accounts was "other" and a network symbol. When I click other and entered my user name and password, it did not work. I am sure I was using the correct password and username. I also tried: username: root, but that also did not work. So i rebooted again and the same "other" still was there without my real account. So i booted into my Mac OS X install dvd and I repaired the disk and all the permissions (there were a lot of things to repair). I thought that this would solve the problem, but it did not.
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Mar 29, 2012I have a Mac Mini running 10.7.3 that I made the mistake of unchecking the show input menu in login window. Now I can't log in at all. I have tried to delete the "com.apple.loginitems.plist" using screen sharing, Lion in all its wisdom tells me I don't have permission.
I then tried to create a start up disk on one of my 2TB disks, somehow the system wasn't installed, just all the included apps. I then tried reinstalling lion on the Mac Mini, after over an hour it restarted with the same blank screen. Now when I go to the App Store Lion is no longer available to me.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 4Gb, 500Gb Internal HD, 6Tb extHD
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Login Window Authentication
Mar 24, 2012Every time i login to my mac this alert appear
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Create A Login Window Banner?
Apr 18, 2012I wanted to add a login banner which requires me to paste something into the Security folder. However, I couldn't find it. I opened up my Library folder in Lion and saw no Security folder. No matter how much I look, I can't find one.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Create A Login Window Banner In It?
Apr 26, 2012I can create and veiw a (PolicyBanner) rtf document just fine. However, the image I placed in the rtf document does not show. (I've tried both jpeg & png) How was the image placed in the sample doc?
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Mac OS X (10.7.3), Policy Banner creation
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Unable To View User Login In OS X Lion 10.7.3 Startup
Feb 15, 2012unable to view user login in OS X Lion 10.7.3 startup. I had made some changes in icloud settings & by mistake must have checked some option related to username & password. Also when i turn my macbook pro on, i can see the grey background with apple logo, however it does not show my image & login password space. thus i'm unable login to my system.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Screen Become Black After The Login Window Displays?
Mar 7, 2012when I tried to launch the macosx lion, after display the login window, the whole window become black.
Then I inject the U-Disk that has MacOSX Lion Installer in it, after the white screen, it become black too. So I can not re-install macosx.
Then I tried press `shift` at login. It also didn't solve the problem. At last I tried the single user mode. It appears some problems:
... USBF ... The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in. It will keep retrying. (Port 4 of Hub at 0X24000000)
no interval found for . Using 8000000
USBF: 9.62 AppleUSBEHCI[0Xffffff800ba92000]::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5 seconds on bus 0X24, timeing out!(Addr:0, EP:0)
...(it appears 5 times)
USBF: 51.642 [0Xffffff800c4eaa00] The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Auto-Logout Does Not Return To Login Window
Jun 6, 2012I have a new install of Mac 10.7.4 on a 21" iMac. I have the iMac set to automatically log out after 14 minutes of idle time. On many occasions when the logout is triggerd, the user account will log out, but the screen does not display the login window, it still shows an image of the last state of when the computer was logged in. When I move the mouse, the screen acts as if it's erasing the pixels off the screen, showing bits and pieces of the login screen in the background. If I type a user ID and password, a small area clears around the login fields so I can see the fields and log in.
This was originally happening when a screen saver was enabled, I have since removed the screen saver. This did not make a difference.
I have the Preference Pane>Security>Advanced set to log out at 14 minutes and the Preference Pane>Energy Saver>Display Sleep set to go black at 15 minutes.
I have tried various different times/settings, but have not been able to fix this.
Since this configuration is for a Lab setting, I really need for the computer to log out cleanly and go back to the login screen.
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Change The Keyboard Layout At The Login Window?
Jun 30, 2012I changed the language on my keyboard from english to spanish and now when i put in my password i cant login. Can i reset the language without logging on, back to an English keyboard? Is there a way to see my text as i tyipe so i know where my password is messing up?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Changing User Login Photos?
Mar 14, 2012My iMac has suddenly started changing the photos shown at the User Login window. eg: the photo set of user no.2 is replaced by user no.1. Can anyone advise how to delete all the photos stored under 'recent photos used' and start again?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Cannot Login To User Account After Migrating To New MacBook
May 18, 2012I just migrated my old MacBook running Snow Leopard to my new MacBook running Lion. After successfully migrating, I am presented with a login for "Guest" only. That is the only account available to me for some reason. When I try to enter every password I can think of, I am given the password hint "guest". Entering that does not work. I've tried the usual Apple public passwords too. What is going on here? What happened to my migrated user account? I went through the entire setup configuration of Lion and even entered and submitted my personal data to Apple for registration. I just say, not impressed with Lion so far ...
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Mac OS X (10.7.2)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: My User Account Picture Does Not Appear On Login Screen
Jun 17, 2012I just noticed that my User Account Picture does not appear on my Login Screen in OS X 10.7.4 Lion. It never has and I just noticed on another Screen shot of someone else's login screen that their login picture is showing. I kind of like it. Can anyone tell me how to get it to display there? My computer was originally set to autologin when I first got it but I set it to require name and password.
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G5
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
768 RAM and additional internal HD
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Disable Guest User Account At Mac Login Screen?
Apr 18, 2012I disable the guest user from panel of preferences users and groups but in the login screen but in the login screen still remains. Why?
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iMac (24-inch Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Guest User On Login Screen And An Option Disappeared (screenshot)
Jun 21, 2012Newly installed osx lion 10.7.4the guest user on the login screen disappeared after fresh installation of osx, and an option "Disable restarting to Safari when screen is locked" on "security & privacy" on preferences panel disappeared as well, its so strange!
macbook pro 13" early 2011
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Early 2011, 13.3/120SSD/8GB
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Remote Screen Share Login With Own User Account Interrupts Other Users?
Mar 1, 2012Apple writes in its OS X Lion screen sharing description that: "You can remotely log in to a Mac with any user account on that computer and control it, without interrupting someone else who might be using the computer under a different login."
Unfortunately, this is not true in my case: When other users are using my 2011 iMac for webbrowsing or DVD watching and I log in on my own acount from my macbook pro, video will stop playing, the spinning wheel sometime appears. The system does not really crash, but wil respond very slowly and in fact is not useable until I as remote user stop my activities or log out. This is not how it should be, especially as the iMac's CPU, memory and network load are very low according to activity monitor's information.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Unable To Login To FileVault-protected User Account After Network Migration From 10.6?
Jun 29, 2012I just used Migration Assistant to move my files from my iMac to my new Macbook Pro. I didn't know about the Filevault problem so when I tried logging in, I got the error message and I am unable to login to my account (the only one on the computer). The support page says to make a root user, but how can I do that when I can't even log in to my account. I dont have a disc copy of Lion I can use to start up with, only a copy of 10.6.
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MacBook Pro
MacBook :: Login Stuck On Login Window Starting
Dec 19, 2010When I turn on lap top (iBook G4 Mac OS x 10.3) i get the following message "Login Window Starting" I followed Apple support guidance - specifically safe start and performing the fsck then reboot process and neither works for me. I don't have the disks any more so I cant use them for reloading the software. I want to sell the laptop so i just want to format the HD. Is it possible to format from command lines?
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it displays as other user and asks for a user name and password
how can i make back in to default.. but with out making it a main user!
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MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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Feb 20, 2012Have recently done a clean install of Lion onto a Mac Pro that was running Snow Leopard. Upgradede to 10.7.3 The Lion Mac sits on an office network of several macs running Snow Leopard and a Network Shared HDD. In order to gain quick full access to the other computers we have been using "connect as" then inputting the macs registerred user administrator details, we were able us access to the full Mac and it's currently mounted hard drives. Since installing Lion I can see and fully access the network share which only uses guest access, see the Other macs in finder, add to their drop boxes but not connect as a registerred user to access one of the snow Leopard machines. I get a pop up. Spinning wheel, and eventually a timeout. Can't even cancel this action as it comes up greyed out. Oddly the other macs can still log into the Lion machine. No joy so far toggling network preferrences and I'm pretty sure it's going to be a setting I have missed, So far have had not joy looking online or playing in seeing why it would now not be able to connect as before.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: New "Other" User Account Appears On User-list At Login?
Feb 1, 2012Today when I turned on my iMac, it went to the login screen and then something odd happened. I saw a second account on the login list that i never made. It is called "Other: and has an icon with lines and spheres (like a networking icon). Also when I click on it, it asks for a name and password.I logged into account and went straight to System Preferences ->Accounts and there is no "Other" in the list of accounts there on the left.just my account. Is this a virus or have I been hacked? Or is this is bug?
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iMac (27-inch Late 2009), Mac OS 8.6 or Earlier
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