A number of readers have reported an issue where non-admin users are unable to log in to their accounts after the Mac OS X 10.3.9 update. Matt Zehner writes: "My wife tried to log into her account for ...

Forgetting your admin password on a Mac can be a stressful situation, but there are several methods to recover access to your account. One of the most effective and versatile methods is using the ...

Families and workplaces can wind up with many accounts on a shared Mac. You may also have set up extra accounts for testing or particular purposes. Whatever the reason, if you want to simplify and ...

Mac OS X uses user ID numbers -- not alphanumeric usernames -- to define user permissions. As such, it is a bad idea (from a security standpoint) to assign the same user ID to two different users, ...

Have you ever lost your user account password for your Mac? You know, the one which lets you get into your Mac at login, or install software, or delete stuff from the ...

Apple has increasingly made it hard to mess with macOS system files. That’s true whether you intentionally want to extend macOS’s functionality or if a malicious party is trying to install and ...

In macOS Big Sur, Apple includes a feature that will be familiar to Windows users, called Fast User Switching. As the name suggests, it lets you switch user accounts quickly and easily, without having ...

Have you stopped using your Mac as a shared device and want to remove/delete other user accounts? If so, do not worry, as Apple provides the flexibility to remove a user from the Mac conveniently.

In macOS Ventura you can move your user's Home directory to a larger or faster external drive. Here's how. In UNIX operating systems, user accounts are stored in individual folders called the user ...

I've an old Mac Mini – just for local content caching and serving stuff – running Sonoma, via OCLP. One botched OCLP update borked it, so after I checked the SSD for errors in target mode I ...