Tag: guest account
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What’s the password for the guest account on macOS?
If you enabled the guest account on macOS, you probably want to have Display login window as be List of users (instead of Name and password). That way, the guest sees the guest account is available and clicks on it, and then it logs into the guest account. If, however, you do have Name and…
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Script enabling/disabling the guest account on OS X
It would appear that you could just enable or disable the guest account by using defaults write in the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist file, but apparently that just changes how it displays in System Preferences > Users & Groups. Scripted Solution There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes, and this script actually does it (almost)…
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Using MathType with a Mac guest account
The Problem I recently found our installations of MathType were working on regular and admin accounts on Macs but not on Guest accounts. When I’d log into a guest account, I’d get this error message: MathType Warning Errors (1) have been written to MathType’s log file: Macintosh HD:Users:Guest:Library:Logs:MathType 6.log. And then looking in the log…