Trying to change my frigging system password. I go into System -> Users
and try. Oh no, that doesn't work. I have to go into the frigging
keychain utility, which I go into but have no idea which thing I am
supposed to changed. Why bother having password fields under System ->
Users if you can't change them?

Mac OS X - the last word in unusability.

In article <NOqdnfG0uMzj6jnfRVnyug@brightview.com>, Frem
<fremlinlins******.com> wrote:

> Trying to change my frigging system password. I go into System -> Users
> and try. Oh no, that doesn't work. I have to go into the frigging
> keychain utility, which I go into but have no idea which thing I am
> supposed to changed. Why bother having password fields under System ->
> Users if you can't change them?

You can go into the Terminal and change it using "passwd". If you have
admin privileges, and some other user has forgotten their password, you
can change it by typing "sudo passwd <user name>".

--
Hans Aberg

In article
<haberg-0606051835260001@c83-250-193-113.bredband.comhem.se>,
haberg@math.su.se (Hans Aberg) wrote:

> In article <NOqdnfG0uMzj6jnfRVnyug@brightview.com>, Frem
> <fremlinlins******.com> wrote:
>
> > Trying to change my frigging system password. I go into System -> Users
> > and try. Oh no, that doesn't work. I have to go into the frigging
> > keychain utility, which I go into but have no idea which thing I am
> > supposed to changed. Why bother having password fields under System ->
> > Users if you can't change them?
>
> You can go into the Terminal and change it using "passwd". If you have
> admin privileges, and some other user has forgotten their password, you
> can change it by typing "sudo passwd <user name>".

Or you can boot up from your install disk and choose "Change Password"
from (I think) the File menu.