[X4U] Account Preferences question

[Aron S. Spencer]

Is the second user logged in? you can't edit them from a different  
account while they are logged in.

On May 9, 2005, at 9:10 PM, Kansas Territory wrote:


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> On May 9, 2005, at 6:29 PM, Vince Lewis wrote:
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>> On May 9, 2005, at 4:08 PM, Kansas Territory wrote:
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>>> I had a second user account, set up while running under Mac OSX   
>>> 10.3.9 or there about.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I've upgraded to Tiger
>>>
>>> Now I try to go into System Preferences and click "Accounts"
>>>
>>> it shows my login(an admin account) and  it shows the second User  
>>> account.
>>>
>>> It won't let me select the secondary User account. So I'm unable  
>>> to make any changes.
>>> I click on the Lock icon below, and login with my admin user  
>>> account, but I still can't select the secondary user account to  
>>> make changes.
>>>
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>> I'll wager it's because you didn't click the lock icon in the  
>> lower left corner of the panel.
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> Not to be a smart ass..  but as I said in my original post.. I  
> click the Lock icon and provide the correct Administrator username  
> and password.  The lock icon then shows it to be unlocked.  but it  
> still won't let me select the  second user account icon to edit  
> it.  It's not grayed out or anything. But clicking on it does nothing.
>
> I've tried repairing permissions which only found like two things.   
> But still no success.
>
> Suppose the next step would be to create a NEW admin account  
> (assuming it will let me do that much) and then see if when logged  
> in with that new admin account, can I edit other user accounts..
>
>
> Kansast
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Aron S. Spencer
Elizabeth, NJ 07202