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Old 05-28-2011
Guest missing from Log In Window but still Logged In

I have information on my Guest account on a webpage that is vital to my being able to leave to go home. I can leave as SOON as I recover this password, otherwise I'll have to wait a whole week Smilie

Here's the thing:

I entered login information on a site in the Guest Account.

The computer has NOT been shut down or restarted.

The Guest Account does NOT show up in the Fast User Switching list nor the Log In window.

In Activity Monitor, it says that Safari is running under Guest.

If I do "w" in the Terminal, it lists
Guest console - 18:10 2:57 -
Turkey s000 - 20:41 - w

So clearly it's there...but it's not! What gives?

I need to access this data either by the Keychain or by logging onto the account!

How can I do this? PLEASE help I have to go home, it's been so many weeks!
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Old 05-30-2011
You can find another account's keychain at /Users/theUser/Library/Keychains/login.keychain

You could make a copy of the guest user's keychain by using sudo in Terminal.
Code:
sudo cp /Users/Guest/Library/Keychains/login.keychain ~/Desktop/login.keychain

Make sure to fix the Guest account's home folder - I think I got it wrong in that command.

However, I'm not sure the guest account ever has a keychain, considering it would be erased at every logout.

-Peter
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