[G4] Freezes on Login

[Raymond E. Hardy]

Thanks Daniel,
    Checking System Preferences, as you suggest, I find that the Name is now
provided as "System Administrator", an alternate "short" name is provided -
"Root" - both names are grayed out, not allowing any changes. It has
accepted my Password.  Hah!!. I checked the box beside the Name to make
login automatic and, Viola! I now find it IS automatic. Wow!, Its been a
good day so far.
    Thanks for the great help
Ray Hardy 

> Ray,
> 
> Check in your System Preferences  under accounts and see if the short
> name of you admin account was changed too? If it was just the Name
> that was changed then you can easily change that back to your
> original name.  The short name according to Apple's built-in help
> system can't be changed unless you create a new account with that
> name.  But I seem to doubt that is 100% true that the short name
> can't be changed there has to be away around that. But let us know if
> your short name was changed too...
> 
> 
> Daniel J. Brieck Jr.
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 24, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Raymond E. Hardy wrote:
> 
>> Wayne,Daniel,Steve,&Ron,
>> Thanks for the suggestions. I booted with my earlier Panther disc, ran
>> repair permissions, finally reinstalled  OSX 10.3. On the restart
>> it booted
>> normally but wouldn't accept what I thought was the password. I
>> restarted
>> and used the Reset password in the drop down menu under Installer. The
>> password works now but only under the Name - System Administrator.
>> I'm happy
>> - but heck how can I change the Name for Login? Somehow before this
>> trouble
>> I was never asked to LOGIN - must be a way to reset things to the
>> old way -
>> right?
>> Thanks to you all.
>> Ray
>> 
>> 
>>> Can you start up with a boot cd os install, and do a repair
>>> permissions?
>>> Is there more than one account on the computer, if so does it happen
>>> to all accounts or just one?
>>> As a general rule I usually have more than one account on a computer,
>>> that way I can troubleshoot if it's an account problem or a general
>>> os problem.
>>> 
>>> On Oct 24, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Raymond E. Hardy wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I have a G4 Quicksilver running Panther. After "Login Window
>>>> Starting"(several minutes) it won't get beyond entering "Name and
>>>> Password"-seems to freeze and then gives you the login window again.
>>>> Tech Tools says there is nothing wrong with things it checks - any
>>>> ideas
>>>> would sure be appreciated.
>>>> Ray Hardy
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