Re: Stop having to do the authentication check in OS X?

In article <1ibpa82.flyl02y7zdi3N%danspam@xxxxxxx>,
danspam@xxxxxxx (Daniel Cohen) wrote:

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article
<cbef00bc-a369-46ba-a26a-479094ae2642@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
DJW <ddwr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A side note would it be a good safe-guard to have two administrators
each with separate passwords just in case I forget one of the
passwords or could there be the possibility of some kind of file
corruption that might keep me locked out in the future to signing into
the administrator account.

Mac OS X already has built-in safe guards for that - not that you should
be careless and forget your administrator password! If you do, though,
as long as you have physical access to the machine, there are ways to
reset the password.

I reckon that having two admin accounts is useful on a laptop, but not
needed on a desktop.

Because one's original install disks are likely to be available for the
desktop, but not necessarily for the laptop. And resetting the password,
etc, can be done easily from the install disks.

I reckon not.

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