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10.7: Keyboard Shortcut for Fast User Switching
This script will do the job while keeping the other user's password stored safely in the keychain. Follow the instructions in the comments at the beginning to set it up properly.
10.7: Keyboard Shortcut for Fast User Switching
Note that Keychain Scripting isn't carried over within Scripting Additions when Lion's installed. You'll need to get it from your Snow Leopard installation if, in fact, it's called with this. Belongs in Lion's /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/ directory.
10.7: Keyboard Shortcut for Fast User Switching
The script uses the
security command line tool, not Keychain Scripting. I see that I did forget to change that in the instructional commits, though.
10.7: Keyboard Shortcut for Fast User Switching
That's why I brought it up.
10.7: Keyboard Shortcut for Fast User Switching
I'm getting this error (I'm on 10.7.3, fast user switch enabled, access for assistant device enabled):
Which can be translated into
DOes anybody know how to fix this?
10.7: Keyboard Shortcut for Fast User Switching
I had some problems with the script using 10.7.3.
a) find-generic-password had problems finding the keychain item
b) apple script could paste the password into the security agent password field
c) the security agent has no button anymore, so I had to send "return"
10.7: Keyboard Shortcut for Fast User Switching
There were some users having trouble to set this up. The common mistake was to set the Description field to "User Login". It needs to be the "Kind" field. My error. As I can't seem to edit the answer I posted a public gist to https://gist.github.com/2995746. |
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