Can't login to OS X Lion

I used Terminal and logged in as root. Then I ran the following command:

/bin/sh /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/uninstall.sh

It asked me for my Domain admin password. I had my IT guy enter that for me and it "unjoined" me from the domain and removed itself.

Thanks for your quick reply. I did what you say above, several times, but the script errors out with "ERROR: unknown OS revision : 11.0.0 exitint Exiting..."

I am on the phone with Centrify now. So frustrating. I no longer work for the company that installed Centrify and I don't want to reinstall from scratch.

Hmm - I didn't get that, but you may want to log in as root on the main log in and install the newer version of Centrify and then try to remove it.

I downloaded the upgraded DMG file, there is no install.sh within. I spoke to Centrify support, but they won't help me because I am no longer employed by the organization that installed the agent in the first place. This truly *****. Do you know how to get to the install.sh file from the new DMG?

I was using Centrify Express which was free. Even if you could find it you would need the domain password of your old company and without it Centrify will not uninstall. Assuming you have root access to the machine, the only thing I can think of that you can do is to backup to Time machine, delete your user from the root account, create a new user which is not bound to Centrify and then migrate your data from Time machine to the new user.

Exactly what I did, but there is no install.sh in the DMG file. Thanks for all of your help otherwise.

I tried these steps but they didn't lay out the way you described. When I get to "quit terminal, quit Mac OSX Utilities, this will bring up the reset dialog box. Choose reset" I don't see that. If I quit Terminal, then quit OS X Utilities, it then gives me the option to "restart" not reset. Why would that part be different for me? Nonetheless, when i restart the password still does not work. I'm completely lost here and wish I could just get a refund...

I'm not an IT tech and not 100% sure this is the place for my query or input seeing as you all seem to have takien a turn into stuff I really know nothing about.

R/e Log-in window password reset prompt / unable to log into my own account after upgrade.

I have the issue. It prompts me to reset my password when I select my acount from the log-in window. Sadly, It does not recognise my password. I have "clicked back" to simply sign in but I'm still unable to acheive access. Likewise, I'm able to create new accounts change passwords and even use the "root" account. Though it shows the new hint I entered along with the new password to my own pre-existing account, it still does not allow ANY password or access.

When I up-graded to Snow Leopard, It did this this where every single time I shut my Mac down and booted it up again, it would prompt me to change the password. I'm told this was a security measure fot IT techs on servers to serve as a reminder to change password for security reasons. I was, however, able to back out of the prompt and access with the existing password without any issue. It was an annoyance, at worse.

Now, this issue appears in a similar fashion except it will not allow access, period. Is this similar to what the creator of this thread, and others with similar problem, experienced? Is there a mean to access SOMETHING to can block/revove/cancel or otherwise destroy this prompt "script" or whtever it is, once and for all??

I'm assuming this has to be connected somehow. I've been back and for with a middleman tech who forwards info up to Apple techs who in turn send back ideas for things to try but, thus far, all for not.

Perhaps this tid bit I've provided -- more of a book, really ;o) -- could help spark a new idea into solving this issue. Please keep in mind that all the "Mac 101" tech ideas have been covered.

here's to wishful thinking

It doesn't really make sense to reset the password for root. You more than likely would rather select your own user from the drop down list and reset that password.

This would make the process much more simple as well since once you have reset your own password and restarted your Mac you are done.

The root password change was the tech's idea. And we tried EVRY conceivable means to change the password but when I select MY primary account, I get a pompt to change the password AND, though I see the password hint has changed to correspond to the reset one, it will NOT accept it.

When I loaded Snow Leopard, on a vigin HD, I had a similar issue but I could back out of it, enter my password and access my account. The point, so I understand, is for IT Techs to remember to change the server password, though mine id NOT a server... I think ( ?!!? ). I have a late 2006 iMac with 2GHz Intle Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM ( I know .. it can only process 3 GB but as a DDR2, they both have to match and the extra gig don't make any difference, and a reasonably new 1 TB HD. On newly created accounts, all is divine. But the account to wich soe of my software, like CleanMyMac and SketchUp 7 Pro, have licenses that are user specific, not for all users on the one computer. Accord to some posts I've read, even after deleting the account and creating a new one under the same name, the problem returns.

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. Your my only hope.

Thank you SO MUCH!

I had the account I made when I set up my MBP, and the one that come over via Migration Assistant. Deleted the original account, and couldn't log in!

I hasn't set up root access, so booting into Recovery, and reseting the root pasword allowed me to logging as root allowed me to re-add the acount that somehow got deleted... THANKS!

I ran into the same error message and I also did not have the login/password for the domain server. However, I patched the script, uninstalled Centrify and I can now finally log in with my original account!

Warning: This is very dirty, but it got me back into my old account.

- on another account, edit /usr/share/centrifydc/bin/uninstall.sh

- search for '10.6', you'll find:

10.*)

OS_REV=10.6;;

- copy and paste these lines to make a new entry for 11.* so it will look like:

10.*)

OS_REV=10.6;;

11.*)

OS_REV=10.6;;

- run the script again

- if it asks you for the domain administrator username, just press enter

- if it asks you for the password, just press enter

- repeat the previous steps a few times

- it will complain a lot, but eventually it will start removing the software and reboot the system

You should now be able to login with your user and password! You may want to follow up with your IT department to make sure things continue working ok. Though, I can still access network shares and everything seems fine on my end.

Hope this helps you out.

I solved the problem following Joshua PDX instructions. At first it didn't work until I used the nickname, which I had forgotten since the administrator account has my full name on it. Once I did that the password change worked smoothly and I had all my files, music and everything back, opening a new account wouldn't give access to them. Thank you!

What a relief, this is wonderful.

Just wanted to add to this post. I had issues with not being able to log in. Even loging in as root would not get me past the login screen. Nothing in the previous posts from this thred worked for me. I finally ended up looking in the system.log and found AuthorizationRef returned an error 100022. Turned out that was the issue and specifically it was with MS Office 2011.

The deatils are at this link.

http://mindflayer.net/2011/07/20/and-shut-out-of-lion/

Sure hope this helps others, as that this drove me crazy for a long time. I was super ****** at Lion, when alas that was not the issue.