It all started with an idea of introducing some security in a personal Macbook (not really know the need as far as the word personal goes). Me being new to OS X I asked my friend who claimed to be a veteran in the OS as to how to set up a poweruser and a superuser account in Mac OS X.
Well then he snatched by baby and started creating the account which I also knew . Just when I was thinking why the hell did I ask this guy a window popped up for setting the super user password. Asking was not such a bad idea after all. With accounts set up it was time for some testing and thats when thing started to turn bazoom.
The test case being try to delete a folder from the root volume and the expected outcome being it should prompt for an admin username and password even if it is a power user as we had stripped of the account for write access.
As it happens when you are a developer with some brains,the test case failed. Oh no!!!!! Time to open the doors of the brains and let some logistics and reasoning out of it to be put into practice, and thats exactly where I noticed an account called everyone having read access in the hard disk. With my logistics and some bleemy reasoning I removed the access and made it no access. Logged off and for the first time saw the acclaimed SBSOD(Sky Blue screen of Death) in an OS X.
Bill might be happy if he sees the post ;-).
First try, second try ,third try okay now time for a format Yuppie!!!! Just when I was thinking of formatting the drive my old veteran came up with a cheat sheet for Macbook which contained shortcuts for boot up options in OS X.
Loaded the CD and my Maccy gets snatched again by the veteran, eventual result being even more confusion.
Finally I thought its time to ask the master of all, the saviour, the enlightened one GOOGLE. I simply queried google for 'giving no access to everyone in mac'. The first result being Mac wont boot after chaning Everyone from Read to No Access .Followed by a thread of discussion on how to fix it.
Thank you Larry and Sergey for letting the world be aware of the search GOD GOOGLE.
Finally the problem got fixed by following the steps provided by the link. If any one has the same problem contact the GOD with the query 'giving no access to everyone in mac'.
Thats one more hell of a situation added to by not so adventurous life.
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1 comment:
Some points:-
1) Dont you dare to name the veteran friend.... Its gonna spoil his techie reputation!
2) What you should learn from this experience is not to fiddle with your main user unless you have ful knowledge of the commands.
3) What the veteran should understand from this experience is not to let eggheads like you fiddle with their Macbooks; not even in the name of science & engineering.....
P.S - It was hell of a experience. I thoroughly enjoyed it! Hehehe.... Lets do more!
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