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Nuisance--- admin password required for Onyx or Cocktail

I don't use an Admin password, but OS 10.74 requires a password, not a blank password, so run Cocktail or Onyx. I enjoy having no password, and no one else uses my laptop. It's a nuisance to add a password, run Cocktail or Onyx, then delete the password in Prefs. The authors of these two utilities assert that Apple requires a password, not the authors of these two fine utilities.

Anyone know a workaround so the password space can be blank ?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Aug 23, 2012 12:35 AM

33 replies

petermac87

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Aug 28, 2012 2:43 AM in response to MacPcConsultant

MacPcConsultant wrote:

There has been 400+ views so far to this thread, so others are enjoying it.

People enjoy a good laugh, and you are the leading clown. If you can't see which posts have been deleted....well.......😉

Anyhow, I thought all was cleared up with your 'programmer' rewriting the entire Unix code for you? 😀

Pete

Aug 28, 2012 11:17 AM in response to petermac87

Nope. As stated earlier the programmer made a patch and now things are fine. No need to rewrite all the code. No password needed for the two utilities. He did it for free.

Apple's Disk Utility doesn't require an admin password when repairing permissions, so it just makes sense that the third party utility password, as required by Apple, could be circumvented. As this might be construed as modifying Apple's OS, he asked that it not be shared with anyone. That's fine, since everyone else here enjoys passwords, even if one letter or number.

Thank you all who participated in this enjoyable and productive thread.

Aug 29, 2012 3:36 PM in response to MacPcConsultant

Forgot to add that with Cocktail one can have it run with a blank (no) password.

Here is how: Set up a password, configure and enable the Pilot scheduler, and then change back to no password aka blank password.

Nuisance--- admin password required for Onyx or Cocktail