My wife is an authorized administrator on my laptop. Lion now wants an admistrator name and password anytime we want to delete a file. I hate this!! My wife forgot her administrator password. Anybody knows how to retrive or change it? Thanks.
Sorry Barney. I edited my link but hadn't seen your post as yet. 😟
You've got something wrong on your Mac.
Check your Trash permissions. In Terminal, copy/paste this in and post the results:
ls -le ~/.Trash/It should return with the first line looking like this:
drwx------ 9 username staff 306 Aug 29 06:39 .If the username is not your username, then you can fix it with:
sudo chown yourUserName ~/.TrashI was going to point out that it had changed, but you figured it out.
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Thanks ya'll, I appreciate it. Ok, here is the problem: Trying to delete a file on the wife's user side. It's saking for adminstrator's name and password. She has admin privilages. We put it in as we remember them. It rejects it by vibrating the dialog box. I went into her groups and users preferences on her user side and changed her paswword. It took it and now this is her new LOGIN password. I waanted to change her administrator password and it still rejects it. Which means that the admin password, and the log in password are NOT he same. It could also be that we do not recall her correct user name. We tried various possibilities but they failed. Long story short: I need to reset both her user name, and password in the admin window, and am not sure what the current ones are. Quite a pickle. Any suggestions on how to reset those now? Thanks.
In addition to the above, I just had a thought. I really do not need two administrators. Can I delete her as an administrator, and just have me as the one administrator? She knows my password anyway, no secrets... That way the problem will be gone, I think. Unless the computer will not let her delete things and affect changes when she is logged in on her user side which would not be good. Thanks.
You've got more problems than just forgetting the Admin account password.
Yes, you can remove her admin privileges and just have on admin account. But, I doubt the problem will be gone. It shouldn't be asking for the password in the first place.
Hi Carolyn,
sorry to break in with a request not related to Apple.
I am very interested in the white-yellow flowers of your picture. I have seen them this sommer in Greece (they grow on a medium size tree) and my wife wished to bring thewm home in Italy. We succeded to transplant and now we would like to grow them. Would you be so kind to send me their name...
Thanks for your time.
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