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Let's differentiate a user being one individual from a user being a single UNIX user account.
As for the purpose of limiting privileges to the computer account and not for the individual operating it, creating two separate user accounts in Mac OS X is overkill and if you ask me rather impractical. Even an administrator account lacks the privileges to modify ...
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Home sharing should allow you to see each other's libraries over your home network, and "drag apps from your wife's onto yours and vice versa. You can definitely do this despite having two accounts- my wife and I have a similar problem. You may have to enter both passwords from time to time to authorize purchases, though.
I found some help setting this ...
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According to Apple's page, it uses the following order for song purchases:
Song credits.
Gift certificate, prepaid card, or allowance credits.
Credit cards.
Thus, it would appear that you cannot charge a credit card without using up your credits or gift certificates first.
However, similar to what @Nick said, you could just open up another account, add ...
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To add on to the existing answers and offer a different solution, you can securely erase the drive instead of just one user account.
If you want to sell your machine but also include installed software, there is a better way to set this up that will ensure none of your personal data is on the machine, as well as provide a better box opening experience for ...
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You need to change your personal contact card in Address Book, soon to be Contacts in Mountain Lion.
In order to do this, launch Address Book and create a card with your information in it.
Then, while your card is selected, go to the Card menu and select "Make This My Card".
Note: I'm not sure if Xcode has a stores this info elsewhere or not, but ...
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Follow these instructions from Apples Knowledge Base:
Click iTunes Store on the left side of iTunes.
If you're not signed in to the store, click the Account button, then
enter your account name and password.
Click the Account button again (your Apple ID appears on the
button), enter your password, and then click View Account.
In the Account ...
8
Having no password on the OS level effectively means that ssh is disabled for that user. The protocol insists on a non-zero password and thus the hashes of whatever password is supplied fails to match the absence of a hash.
You must supply ssh keys or otherwise arrange some authentication to log in should your account have no password.
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You must first got to iTunes store in iTunes then choose App Store then select 1 free app (this is the most important steps) and try to get that app, when you try to download this free app iTunes ask you to enter your acount. so you must press Create New Acounts and fill the forms but in the Provide a Payment Method steps because you try to download free ...
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It really doesn't make any difference. The vast majority of apps you will ever use will install in a different location (root Library, or user Library), but their configuration will always be user specific.
If you never intend to have other users on the system, the only difference will be remembering where something is installed when you go to delete it.
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Some social engineering solutions :
Your iTunes account was presumably associated with your credit card, yes? You could attempt to prove you identity to Apple via that credit card connection. You could warn them that you plan on contesting credit card charges if they cannot restore the account.
If Apple won't help, then collect your old credit card ...
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Another suggestion -- you can authorize itunes on your computer to play content from your wife's account ("iTunes -> Store -> Authorize Account") as well as your own.
And you can do the same for itunes on your wife's computer.
This will allow you to play both you and your wife's content on both of your computers. However, this way you will have to ...
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I see it's an old thread, but here is the solution to this problem (without restarting the whole computer).
The problem is in the opendirectoryd daemon and the earliest reports date from the beginning of 2011. Restarting the daemon (switching users with an admin one via Fast User Switching) fixes the problem.
While writing this answer, I've found a similar ...
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I think this may be a phishing. I advise you to check the 3 following key
points:
Within the headers of the 2 E-mails you received, verify
they are really originating from apple.com .
Verify the included URL is really within the apple.com domain.
Within the headers, verify there isn't any Return-Path: outside of apple.com .
5
I have a possible work around.
The songs that you are missing, are they stored on an iPod?
If so use software such as Senuti which you can use for free to transfer 1000 files from your iPod into iTunes.
If you need more it is a small worth while fee.
I am not sure it will transfer songs already in iTunes so you may need to setup another user profile and ...
5
If you have triggered the account to be into a locked status due to too many failed log in attempts, you will need the help of a human to get it unlocked when you no longer can receive email or answer both the birth day question and the security question to a machine's satisfaction.
(yes, I'm sure you know your birthday, but it could have been entered ...
5
Something in memory got corrupted, and the mapping between your userID (502) and your username (ipd) was lost. I've seen it happen (usually when I've manually killed hung system processes), although I'm not sure exactly what causes it. launchd maybe?
Because that mapping is lost, whoami can't convert your ID into a username so returns the ID, and your ...
5
An iCloud account, iTunes account and Apple ID are all the same thing. Apple just refers to them a bit inconsistently. You can (and typically should) have a single Apple ID for all of them, unless you specifically need to separate them out.
Account "Types"
iCloud Account
Typically refers to the Apple ID that is used for iCloud services, such as backup and ...
5
From Apple's iCloud Tabs support article (emphasis added):
If you no longer have access to the device that that you used to browse that tab, the tab will automatically be cleared from the list after 7 days, if not updated.
So, any leftover tabs should be gone after a week.
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I am afraid you are out of luck and there is no help for this. I tried to help a tech support client with this same problem and there is nothing to be done about it. It is truly too late.
People, if you have ever bought anything from any merchant (not just iTunes) and registered your account with the merchant using an email address from your employer, and ...
4
You can get a daily log file from iTunes after a sync to list each app activation that happened in the past day.
If iTunes offers to erase content - say no and just set it up to do a basic sync (not syncing any content in the many tabs). Once the sync is complete, you will have copies of the system logs. Should you not be able to do this, there are also ...
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The only things i can think of, and this probably isn't what you really want, is to go into the App Store on the iPad and hit the purchased button. It should give you a list of everything purchased on the iPad.
Second, and very basically, you could take a screenshot of the screen with all of the apps on it and email it to yourself.
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Developers access your Twitter accounts through the Accounts framework.
When an app requests access to your accounts, it uses the requestAccessToAccountsWithType:withCompletionHandler: method. (The only supported account type is currently ACAccountTypeIdentifierTwitter.) This grants access to all accounts of that type.
Therefore, unfortunately, apps can't ...
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I echo the comments above. I'm not sure why you would want to bother hiding the user, why not just have a single admin account, making everyone else "standard" accounts and use sudo in the CLI (Command Line Interface - "Terminal.app") if you need to.
Anyway, here is the Apple tech article on creating hidden users and/or just hiding users from the login ...
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The secure delete option can indeed take a long time. But if you really want all traces of your data to be removed from the media, you need to wait for it to complete.
If you want to quickly get all traces of your data off a machine, the quickest way is to physically remove the disk drives (believe it or not). This is what I generally recommend to friends ...
3
If you have multiple devices spread among family members and also share your iTunes account with family members, this should help:
Article: How to Use iCloud in a Family Setting:
http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/10/how-to-use-icloud-in-a-family-setting-share-apps-but-not-contacts
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For devices that have been updated to iOS 5, the 'Show all Apps' feature in Usage shows all the installed apps, as a by-product of showing how much space each app takes up:
Settings
General
Usage
Show all Apps
(And if you need to reclaim some space, it allows you to uninstall individual apps too.)
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Two days ago I received an email from apple support. The author told me
Leider muss ich Ihnen mitteilen, dass es nicht möglich ist, iTunes Accounts miteinander zu verbinden.
which means
Unfortunately I have to tell you that it is not possible to merge iTunes accounts.
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The way me and the wife have got around this is to use two accounts but have the same password so we don't have to remember a different password. This way, when you come to update your apps, it doesn't matter which account pops up, it will be the same password.
We also have a third account. Mine, hers and shared.
This is because I have had mine for years ...
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