Home folders locked

[G_Town]

All of a sudden can't open pdf's on an Imac running 10.6 wants a login and password to do it, these machines dont have passwords, home folders all show that they are locked, tried creating a new user admin and reg and all those home folders are locked, wtf?

Still messing with it any ideas?

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

Fix your permissions.

[Joe]

Fix your permissions.

Agreed. Good place to start. And use Applejack. The swiss army knife of the Mac.

[G_Town]

What am I new :tongue:

Anyway finally just nuked that user, nothing really on it I have it running as admin but now it what's the keychain password anyway around that?

I have no clue as to what it is.

[G_Town]

NVM just reset it.

[Joe]

You're talking to yourself again. :tongue:

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

He does that.

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

BTW, Applejack is not supported for 10.6, so I would find an alternate method, like the System disk to repair permissions at this point.

[G_Town]

10.5 I was mistaken.

[DigitalCrapShoveler]

Okay. But, still don't run Applejack IF you ever upgrade to 10.6 until they get it fixed.

[Slappy]

No shit? I just installed Applejack on the Mac at home running SL. I wonder what happens if I use it.

[David]

you'll get an applejackedsnowleopard?

what do I win?


oh goody!

[David]

got a report that AJ doesn't work with 10.5.6

Since I upgraded to 10.5.6, Applejack does not work. When I restart and hold command+s, I get only an opportunity to run fsck. The former script does not run.

[Joe]

I use Applejack on 10.5.8 without problems.

[David]

well, that's just you, being a ninja master an' all.
I take some of the "reports" on the net to be questionable, until proven by more than one.


so, carry on...