[MacTUG] OS X 10.6 and guest account

[Glenn Anderson]

There appears to be some problems with Guest accounts created under  
10.5 on systems that have been updated to 10.6.

Here is a summary I came across:

"a Mac OS X Snow Leopard bug apparently related to Guest accounts that  
is resulting in a complete loss of user data. The problem appears to  
manifest itself on machines which had the Guest account option enabled  
under Leopard and were subsequently upgraded to Snow Leopard. Users  
booting their machines have reported that upon start-up, they have  
been logged into the Guest account. Upon switching to their regular  
account, the affected users have been finding all of their user data  
missing and unrecoverable except from a backup."

It seems to have to do with changes in the guest account settings, as  
it is claimed that creating a clean fresh guest account under 10.6  
solves the problem.

Here is a link to how to fix it.  http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10356505-263.html




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