April 2017
Does the guest user have a password?
18/04/17 Filed in: general troubleshooting
You set up my Mac last week and I need the guest user name and password. Currently the guest is the admin and I can not unlock it to download my programs
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The Guest User would not be involved with installing any applications. The guest user on a mac is there for people to temporarily use the computer and then when signing out of the guest user everything done inside that user is removed. The guest is never the Admin. The guest user doest not have any authority to install a program. Your Admin user would do that. Also, the guest user would never have a password. If you go into your system preferences , select Users and Groups. There you will see the name of your actual Admin user. The Guest user is also there but does not effect the computer.

If I set any password for something without the user’s input I would have used “password”. However, thinking back I remember you went through a couple different ideas of what you’d like your computer password to be in the Admin. Is it possible you may have forgotten the password you chose? If so, we can reset it. I see you scheduled a session.
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The Guest User would not be involved with installing any applications. The guest user on a mac is there for people to temporarily use the computer and then when signing out of the guest user everything done inside that user is removed. The guest is never the Admin. The guest user doest not have any authority to install a program. Your Admin user would do that. Also, the guest user would never have a password. If you go into your system preferences , select Users and Groups. There you will see the name of your actual Admin user. The Guest user is also there but does not effect the computer.

If I set any password for something without the user’s input I would have used “password”. However, thinking back I remember you went through a couple different ideas of what you’d like your computer password to be in the Admin. Is it possible you may have forgotten the password you chose? If so, we can reset it. I see you scheduled a session.
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