login-screen interview questions
Top login-screen frequently asked interview questions
Somehow, I managed to set a passwd for my _postgres user on my OS instead of setting it on the postgres role I have as my superuser / root. Anyways since this, I've been struggling with that user showing up in the account section and login screen, which I really would like to avoid. I've read through some docs about this, and setting the password to * should be all that is needed to fix this. But after several attempts doing this with and without dscl to no avail, I'm gotten to a point where I don't know what to do anymore.
I didn't think it would be even hard doing this, but clearly I'm missing something, so how do you do this?
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How do I induce the Mac graphical login from SSH? Is there a way to make the loginwindow process start a user session by running a command when remotely logged in via SSH as an admin on Mac OS X?
When the machine is at the login window (no user is currently logged in), I want it to open up a user's session as if I had clicked on the username and entered a password.
Solutions that don't involve scripting the GUI are highly preferred, but this Apple KB page may be of interest for those who go that route.
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Question refers to Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
When I lock my computer I don't want people to be able to mess about with it, so would like the Ease of Access button (in the bottom left corner of the logon screen) to either be removed or disabled.
Does anybody know how to do this?
Thank you for your help :-)
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I'm using OS X Snow Leopard, on a Macbook Pro.
Is there any way to "tap to click" (on the trackpad) instead of pressing down on the trackpad when interacting with the login screen?
It's not really that big of a deal, but I'm curious.
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When MacOS boots up and the users is prompted to select the account (s)he wants to login into, the users can either click the name / icon of the account with the mouse or just type in the name of the account.
I want to do the same at the login screen of Windows7: Login screen pops up, I start to type my account name, I select the account with enter and then I type the password and enter again. No usage of the mouse involved.
(I am aware of tab-cycling and hard-to-follow-the-almost-invisible-marker-of-where-the-focus-is-right-now)
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Is there a way to make the login screen in Windows 7 look like the one in Windows XP, i.e boxes for:
I know this is a bit of a strange one, and trust me, I wouldn't do it if I didn't have to. Even if there was just a way to select the domain from a dropdown box would be good. We are trying to have non domain users login to the local machine instead of onto the domain with a generic username and password.
For future reference I found that the easiest way to solve the problem I was having (Getting local users to log on easily) is to add a ./ in front of the username.
i.e ./joebloggs
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Recently, I've reinstalled Windows on my laptop, upgrading it from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1. Now, I want to change the theme (or at least, wallpaper) which is shown on the screen before any user logs in. (Note: not the user lock screen, but the one which appears upon clean reboot - systemwide)
I don't want it to be a custom image, just another one from standard. Is there a way to do it without group policy or much tinkering with the registry? I've used one of the tricks to move User folder from system SSD drive to secondary HDD on the PC, and the result was that I couldn't upgrade to Windows 8.1. So I want to know if there is any more-or-less native way.
NOTE: this is not a duplicate of the question shown below, because my question refers to systemwide locking screen and not the user custom one. As you may guess, there's only one systemwide image per computer, but multiple user custom ones.
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It's easy enough to hide a user on the Mac OS X Login screen but, how do you add a network user to the Login screen?
Currently users click "Other…" and type their username & password. Most of our Macs, though managed, are primarily used by one individual. I'd like to put that individual's account name on the login screen. Anyone else who wants to login would still have to click "Other…".
Is this possible?
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Any way of changing the login screen DPI, as mine is locked at 125% and I would like it to be 100%.
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In Ubuntu 9.10, how do I change it so as not to show a list of users at the login screen? I would prefer it to be like 9.04 where you typed in the username, then the password.
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Pre-Snow Leopard, I could use the following command:
defaults write com.apple.loginwindow Finder /Applications/My-replacement-app-such-as-Terminal.app
Which would a.) replace the Finder launching at login with an application of my choice, and b.) cause that application to launch instead of Finder when all other applications are quit.
Is it possible to do this in Snow Leopard, or has this behavior been deprecated? (I don't want to disable Finder altogether, I just don't want it to start at login.)
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I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium at home and Professional at work.
How can I change the colour and/or the background image of the lock/login screen? I'd like to set it to something nicer than the default blue with flowers.
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Today, I decided to test some new software I'm developing on my PC under a non-admin account.
I've run into a huge problem, though: I'm unable to switch accounts! I have the Guest account enabled and have also created a test user (local account, standard user). Neither of them show up when clicking my profile in the upper-right corner of the Start screen. Windows doesn't seem to believe that those accounts exist anywhere besides the 'Manage Accounts' screen.
I'm very confused here. The only way I can even access the 'Switch User' function is by using Ctrl+Alt+Delete or via the Alt+F4 menu. Once I click 'Switch User' there, it takes me to the sign-in screen, but only my account is listed. The small arrow to the upper left of my account picture - which is supposed to let you switch users - is not available.
It seems that this could possibly be a result of fast user switching being disabled, but I'm not sure since I can't switch user accounts anywhere. I'm using Windows 8.1 Pro edition, so the group policy editor is not available to me. I've tried adding the registry entry manually to no avail.
Any ideas?
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I'm using Windows 8 and I find the power button and the accessibility options very annoying. It's a computer that is in a public place surrounded with kids and they keep on changing the accessibility options and turn off the computer.
Is there a way to remove those two features from the logon screen and make it available for authenticated users only?
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