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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) adding second password to preference or an app Post 302573056 by vbe on Saturday 12th of November 2011 03:55:37 PM
Old 11-12-2011
Im a beginner in mac... I bought last year a G4 1.6 GHz power book and started to use it 2 months ago at work when my pc fails... Not used yet to the keyboard (looking for Chars when writing scripts...) because of its stability I bought last month a G5 quad core (Im typing on it now... configured last week for I was waiting for my new screen to arrive) I have some strange issues with screen ( new screen faulty or graphic card???).
I solved the problem by creating a extra user account for me and one for guests...
I gave my user acccount the right in sudoers to su my account (which has admin rights...), put on my desktop X console and terminal (like on my powerbook which I use to connect to other UNIX boxes I administer...) since I have no idea how a mac works and learning slowly, I do my stuff in command ext mode and happy to use vi (I am sure there is a hidden notepad somewhere...).
You would have to untick automatic connection (which would log you as you (admin)).
and choose to login as simple user...

What do you think?
 

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lchage(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 lchage(8)

NAME
lchage - Display or change user password policy SYNOPSIS
lchage [OPTION]... user DESCRIPTION
Displays or allows changing password policy of user. OPTIONS
-d, --date=days Set the date of last password change to days after Jan 1 1970. -E, --expire=days Set the account expiration date to days after Jan 1 1970. Set days to -1 to disable account expiration. -i, --interactive Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration. -I, --inactive=days Disable the account after days after password expires (after the user user is required to change the password). -l, --list Only list current user's policy and make no changes. -m, --mindays=days Require at least days days between password changes. Set days to 0 to disable this checking. -M, --maxdays=days Require changing the password after days since last password change. Set days to 99999 to disable this checking. -W, --warndays=days Start warning the user days before password expires (before the user is required to change the password). EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error. libuser Jan 12 2005 lchage(8)
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