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Is there a program or another way that i can find what the password is for my daughters account on ibook. I am the admin and i can change it but i need to access it descreatly. are there any ways to do that from the admin side?
 
Yes. The secret is to trust your daughter and to simply _ask_ her what you want to know.
 
trust is based on honesty and honesty is a two way road, unfortunately not in this case.... todays youth....
 
If there were a way to bypass a password, then what good would the password be? Imagine your computer as your home, and the password as the key to the house... if there were a way to enter the home without the key, what good would the key be?

The short answer is no, there is not a way to discreetly bypass the password. Mac OS X is based upon UNIX, which is a VERY secure operating system. Passwords are meant to keep people out, no matter what the relation between users.
 
You do not require a user's password to access that persons account.

As an administrator, you can create a 'root' account.
With a 'root' account created, you can log in as 'root', via the 'Login Window'.
Once logged in as 'root', all the accounts directories are accessible.
 
there is a way to access the account without the password, but it will not get you the password itself. if you wanted the password only, this will not help you.

1. find a file that is your daughter's.
2. go to the "File" tab and click "Get Info" (or just press Control-I ,lower case)
3. go down to "Ownership & Permissions"
4. there should be a "You can No Access" area that is gray
5. click the little arrow below to make the window bigger
6. it should have lots of buttons, but you need the "Owner" tab
7. click the little lock icon and input your Admin name + password
8. the tab should no longer be gray, and you can switch the tab to your name for you to control

And thats it. Be sure to change the permission back to your daughter, or she might get suspicious (ex: if you change her personal library, her account changes to the standard account, background, dock, etc. ; if you change her desktop, she will no longer have any files on her desktop.)

good luck. talking helps
 
Snooping on one's child is not the kind of thing that the root account is intended to facilitate. The root account is like having a key to the front door and to every room in the house. It still doesn't tell you where the money is hidden or the illegal drugs are stashed. To find what you are looking for, you still have to rummage through everything. Even then, you won't necessarily find it. The out-of-control child is not going to have love letters to her drug-dealing boyfriend in Word format stored on her computer. Her communications are via one or more chat clients. If root doesn't know her user name, how will the root user even logon to the chat site? You won't find anything even if you do.

MacOS X ships with the root account disabled for a reason. There are no checks on root. Everything, good or bad, is allowed. The novice user--and the purposes of this discussion the OP is clearly a novice user--can create infinitely more trouble for himself/herself than can ever be compensated for by any good that is hoped for. In this case, what is hoped for probably just is not possible.
 
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