Hi. I'm an idiot.
I was adding a new user acount on my iBook for my friends to use without having access to my settings, folders etc.
I had my system admin account logged in with fast user switch mode enabled. I switched over to the public account, and saw that the hard drive was still on the desktop, although everything else i had limited wasn't. I wanted to limit access to the hard drive, so went to get info on the hard drive, and picked the normal user account in the name field. i changed the read only in the permissions field to no access, and thats when all went to ****! Thinking the no access setting would only be for the normal account, it set it to both it and the system admin account. I was logged into the normal user acount, with the system preferences access disabled. So I used the quick login to switch over to the sys admin account. When I did that everything on the desktop, including the dock and the file menu bar disapeared. I could literrally do nothing. No shutdown, system prefs, etc. I was forced to do a hard reset (hold button down).
Once the ibook reset, i logged in to the new user account, hoping to be able to change the hard drive permissions from there. I couldn't. It asked me for my sysadmin user name and pass. When I put it in, it did the same thing to the new user account, that had happened to the sys admin account, complete blocked access. I was forced to reset again, this time though, login into either account ends up with a blank desktop. I don't know what to do other than a complete system restore, which means losing everything.
Someone please tell me there's another way.
I was adding a new user acount on my iBook for my friends to use without having access to my settings, folders etc.
I had my system admin account logged in with fast user switch mode enabled. I switched over to the public account, and saw that the hard drive was still on the desktop, although everything else i had limited wasn't. I wanted to limit access to the hard drive, so went to get info on the hard drive, and picked the normal user account in the name field. i changed the read only in the permissions field to no access, and thats when all went to ****! Thinking the no access setting would only be for the normal account, it set it to both it and the system admin account. I was logged into the normal user acount, with the system preferences access disabled. So I used the quick login to switch over to the sys admin account. When I did that everything on the desktop, including the dock and the file menu bar disapeared. I could literrally do nothing. No shutdown, system prefs, etc. I was forced to do a hard reset (hold button down).
Once the ibook reset, i logged in to the new user account, hoping to be able to change the hard drive permissions from there. I couldn't. It asked me for my sysadmin user name and pass. When I put it in, it did the same thing to the new user account, that had happened to the sys admin account, complete blocked access. I was forced to reset again, this time though, login into either account ends up with a blank desktop. I don't know what to do other than a complete system restore, which means losing everything.
Someone please tell me there's another way.
