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A potential multiple users login bug
Authored by: rmb303 on Aug 21, '03 11:00:32AM

I too experience this bug when a non-admin user logs in. It causes no apparent harm, but is an annoyance !
I have 2 hard drives on a 2 x 500 Mhz G4 running OS X 10.2.6

For ages I wondered why I hadn't heard of anyone else with this problem.



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A potential multiple users login bug
Authored by: network23 on Aug 21, '03 11:11:45AM

Yeah, I get that too.

I've also seen another problem that I'm pretty sure is a bug.

Two of my kids are pretty young, so I wanted to simplify the system for them by adjusting the Capabilities -- mostly by turning off most of what the user can do (Remove Dock items, change password, open all system prefs) and also specify what apps could be run.

On my system, most of my apps are on a separate partition, including many of the games I wanted to give my kids access to. After setting up the system and tesing my kids logins, most of the "external" games did not show up in Finder and those that did lost their icons, just showing the generic application icon. I used my AppleCare and after many phone sessions, they couldn't fix the problem other than to tell me to install all the apps I wanted the users to access on the OS X partition.

I'd ask someone to test it out on Panther, but I've asked a "2 minutes to test this out" question multiple times on several boards and it took days to get an an answer. I held no hope of getting someone to test out the above situation. I'll just have to find out for myself.

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A potential multiple users login bug
Authored by: osxpounder on Aug 22, '03 04:30:45PM
Summary: The error only happens to users logging in, when, in user's capabilities, "Open All System Preferences" is checked without checking "Change Password."

[robg adds: I don't have any non-admin users, so I can't confrim this one -- can anyone else comment on a warning dialog at startup for non-admin users on multi-drive machines?]
You won't remember this, robg, but I dropped by the OSXChat a few months ago asking folks there for help with this very problem--at the time, we were all scratching our heads and no one else there had seen it yet.

It occurs on two Macs I've set up, but neither allows users to Open All System Preferences nor Change Password ....

I just decided to let the users click "Ignore ...", since that's what they'd do if they couldn't get in contact with me anyway. No harm seems to have come from this. I'm glad to know someone else has seen it, and perhaps I'll apply a fix described here when I re-image those machines--I haven't decided yet.

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