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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) adding second password to preference or an app Post 302573067 by botchagalou on Saturday 12th of November 2011 05:06:05 PM

11-12-2011

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As I said adding a admin acct that I don't keep the login and logging in as simple user does not allow me to run MacTuneup, clear logs, etc. Only disc permissions can be run.
I need a way to lock date/time panel w/o adding an admin. I was looking for fileguard/filelock today but apple has changed what they offer for downloads and most of those are not free. I still think there must be a way to have a prompt for a second password. All of this since developers of the app don't seem to want to update the way passwords are used nor rearrange the temporary pwd list they use. I cannot get a temp password since I purposely did not keep pwd to email address i set for it. Until such time as they do so ( i've been waiting a year already!) I need to lock date to keep me out...unfortunately its too easy for me to change to date I have pwd for...tough to forget it !!!. I thought of trashing prefpane but that would probably crash the system.

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time-admin

time-admin(1)							   User Commands						     time-admin(1)

NAME

       time-admin - Basic configuration of system time, date, timezone and NTP client.

SYNOPSIS

       time-admin [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       time-admin  enables  the  user  to  configure the default timezone and current date/time on the system. It also enables the user to turn on
       auto-synchronisation of this using NTP.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       gnome-std-options	       Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more informa-
				       tion.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Running the main application.

       example% time-admin

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/time-admin	       Executable for time and date configuration.

       /var/spool/setup-tool-backends/backup/time
				       Backup directory for files that are modified.

       /var/run/setup-tool-backends/debug/time
				       Debug logs can be found under here.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-system-tools	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Uncommitted		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       users-admin(1), shares-admin(1), services-admin(1), network-admin(1), gnome-std-options(5), rtc(1M), ntpdate(1M), xntpd(1M), attributes(5)

NOTES

       Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006.

SunOS 5.11							    6 Nov 2006							     time-admin(1)