System Preferences->Accounts. Select the account and hit the minus sign.
That's OS X 10.4 Tiger.
I thought this also, but a while back I reformatted an iMac to sell, so I had to create an admin account and PW for a user I didn't know at the time. I ended up keeping the iMac in the family and created another user account as admin and tried to delete the first admin account; however, it appears that my keychain was still tied to this account and all my system defaults still appear as this old admin user. It was really weird. I think I finally got the keychain transferred to the new user, but for others who may do this in the future, would you know of a better way to do this without being tied to the old admin account?
Hmm.. I don't think I ever tried that. I don't think it automatically transfers the keychain over - you'd have to copy that file manually. System defaults aren't attached to a particular user, so those will remain also.
I think the best you can do as far as making a new Admin and yet keeping the old Admin's settings is to copy files over. You can import a keychain, apparently, but I haven't tried it.
What I do when I sell a machine is wipe it, then boot from the OS X DVD, then do an install, and then when it gets to the welcome screen sequence, just Quit the Setup Assistant. When the buyer starts up the machine, it will continue with the registration and new user creation screens. As I recall, this is due to a flag file that is set on an installation and if that file is still there on the next boot, the system will launch the Setup Assistant.
What I do when I sell a machine is wipe it, then boot from the OS X DVD, then do an install, and then when it gets to the welcome screen sequence, just Quit the Setup Assistant. When the buyer starts up the machine, it will continue with the registration and new user creation screens. As I recall, this is due to a flag file that is set on an installation and if that file is still there on the next boot, the system will launch the Setup Assistant.
Good point! I'll remember that next time. Thanks a lot!
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Originally posted by grandslam
question from a mac beginner. How do you completely remove a user from an iBook?
Thanks in advance.
System Preferences->Accounts. Select the account and hit the minus sign.
That's OS X 10.4 Tiger.
Originally posted by lundy
System Preferences->Accounts. Select the account and hit the minus sign.
That's OS X 10.4 Tiger.
I thought this also, but a while back I reformatted an iMac to sell, so I had to create an admin account and PW for a user I didn't know at the time. I ended up keeping the iMac in the family and created another user account as admin and tried to delete the first admin account; however, it appears that my keychain was still tied to this account and all my system defaults still appear as this old admin user. It was really weird. I think I finally got the keychain transferred to the new user, but for others who may do this in the future, would you know of a better way to do this without being tied to the old admin account?
I think the best you can do as far as making a new Admin and yet keeping the old Admin's settings is to copy files over. You can import a keychain, apparently, but I haven't tried it.
What I do when I sell a machine is wipe it, then boot from the OS X DVD, then do an install, and then when it gets to the welcome screen sequence, just Quit the Setup Assistant. When the buyer starts up the machine, it will continue with the registration and new user creation screens. As I recall, this is due to a flag file that is set on an installation and if that file is still there on the next boot, the system will launch the Setup Assistant.
Originally posted by lundy
What I do when I sell a machine is wipe it, then boot from the OS X DVD, then do an install, and then when it gets to the welcome screen sequence, just Quit the Setup Assistant. When the buyer starts up the machine, it will continue with the registration and new user creation screens. As I recall, this is due to a flag file that is set on an installation and if that file is still there on the next boot, the system will launch the Setup Assistant.
Good point! I'll remember that next time. Thanks a lot!