Re: User account disappeared
- From: "WhispSil" <whispsil@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 20 Jan 2006 08:58:07 -0800
James Meiss wrote:
> In article <1137437427.352420.83270@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> "WhispSil" <whispsil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello to all,
> >
> > I will be glad if you can help me in something strange.
> > btw, i'm using Mac OS X 10.4.4
> >
> > Yesterday i logout normally from my user account. Today when trying to
> > enter with this account the login prompt always complained with a
> > "Invalid Password".
> >
> > I then login with my admin account and on the "Account" pane on the
> > preferences, for my surprise, my user account didn't show up on the
> > account's list.
> > In the Terminal i confirmed that the home and the files of the user
> > account are still present.
> >
> > When trying to create a new account with the same name, the system
> > complained that the name for the new account is already being used by
> > another account.
> >
> > If you know some we te restore or to re-reference the user account i
> > will be truly happy. Well, i've no words for this realy strange
> > behaviour.
> >
> > Thanks in advance...
>
> Seems very strange that this happened to you. Anyway:
>
> You could try the procedure that apple recommends for changing the short
> user name. see <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106824>
>
> You might have to do it in two steps if you want your old user name
> back. Or rename the old user folder before recreating your new user. Not
> sure.
>
> --
> Jim Meiss
> <http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/jdm>
Thank you for your feedback,
Yes, i also think that this is strange and this is the second time that
it happends to me. The first one was arround 10.4.1 or 10.4.2.
The unique problem with this guide is that it assumes that you had
previously removed the user from the user panel. But what happends to
me is that there is still references to him in the netinfo and other
places arround. And despite being able to remote it from the users
section of netinfo, there must still exist configuration files arround
that are preventing me from recreating it.
Do you now what me be this files?
.
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