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i created a standard troubleshooting guide for user accounts that get corrupted or act strange for work. Maybe it could help someone here some day. Please excuse the spelling errors, i haven't spell checked it yet.
if anyone is interested here it is: MAINTENANCE SCRIPTS sudo /etc/daily = daily maintenance script sudo /etc/weekly = weekly maintenance script sudo /etc/monthly = monthly maintenance script fsck -yf = repair permissions on start up portion of disk (hold down cmd +s during start up to do this) STRANGENESS ON USER ACCOUNT - log out and log into administrator account - repair permissions with disk utility - open teminal, run daily, weekly and monthly maintenance scripst - restart in safe startup mode (hold down command +s at startup) to repair startup permissions (fsck -yf) - when startup permission repair is commplete type “reboot” and start as normal *if none of this helps the user is probably corrupt and a new one will need to be created. CREATE A NEW USER WITH OLD USERS FILES -log in as administrator and open up system prefences and click the accounts button, click the lock and authenticate as administrator. -create a new user with a username very simular to the user you will be replacing (i suggest keeping the same password as the old user to avoid confusion). -open up net info manager from /Applications/utilities -click “security” from menu bar and select “authenticate” from the drop down menu. -authenticate with your administrator password. -select “security” from the menu bar again and choose enable root user and set a root password. -quit netinfo manager, and log out. -scroll down to “other” on the login screen, enter “root” for the user name and the password created in the last step for the the password. -Browse to the /users folder and copy all files/folders from the old users home folder to the new users home folder. -when copying completes open the terminal and type the command sudo Chown -R <newuser> /Users/<newuser> authenticate when promted. -command will run pretty quick. type exit in the terminal window and quite terminal. -log out, test new user -log out of new user, if all works well log back into regular administrator account, open netinfo manager and click the “security” menu from the title bar and authenticate. -click the “security” menu again and disable the root user and log out. -go back into the normal administrator account and delete the old user. (do not choose delete immediately, instead choose ok so it makes a disk image in the of the old user in the /Users/ deleted users directory) we can keep this image around for a month or so, until we know all is well. -log out of administrator and into new user. Last edited by Smackintosh; 02-16-2007 at 03:54 PM. Reason: FORGOT TO LIST THE CHANGE OWNERSHIP COMMAND |
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