Q: Time Machine configured Mac always requires password
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Mar 19, 2013 2:22 PMby Eric Root,You may need to rebuild permissions on your user account. To do this,boot to your Recovery partition (holding down the Command and R keys while booting) and open Terminal from the Utilities menu. In Terminal, type: 'resetpassword' (without the 's) and select the admin user. You are not going to reset your password. Click on the icon for your Macs hard drive at the top. From the drop down below it select the user account which is having issues. At the bottom of the window, you'll see an area labeled Restore Home Directory Permissions and ACLs. Click the reset button there. The process takes a few minutes. When complete, restart.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/
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Apr 3, 2013 12:02 PMby paimai,Hi Eric,
That doesn't help either.
It seems you can only avoid this permissions problem if you give the new Mac exactly the same user name, password etc as on the old Mac before configuring it with Time Machine.
Using a 3rd party utility program to disc clone would have avoided this MASSIVE problem, but I thought, who should know Apple better than Apple?
Unfortunately, I've been travelling the last few months and had no access to my old Mac, so in the meantime, I'Ve manually been changing file permissions – so far about 2,000 files.
It would help if Apple actually bothered to tell their customers that...
Anyway, thanks for your help. In the meantime, I'm steering clear of Time Machine
