Tag: login
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How to hide user account names on OS X Mavericks’ login screen
For those who don’t want the available users to be publically visible to whoever wakes up or powers on your Mac, there is an easy way of hiding the list – or just select members. In a Terminal window run the following: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList -array-add [username] You can do…
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Windows 8 or 8.1: How to lock the computer or login session
Someone asked us how to find the “lock” button on Windows 8 the other day – it’s not under the “power” button, which only provides you with the options of sleep/shutdown/restart. Try this shortcut from anywhere in the OS: Windows Key + L Quick and easy – though not obvious!
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Asus ASMB7-iKVM IPMI default login and password
In case you don’t like reading manuals before jumping in (or have forgotten) the default login and password for an ASMB7-iKVM IPMI card is: username: admin password: admin You can change this once you log in, and we would definitely recommend you do so – given the amount of control…
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MySQL: How to log in
If you’re unfamiliar with MySQL you may be following a guide which instructs you to log in as root without actually telling you how; use the following: mysql -u root -p This logs you in as the root user (-u signifying which user you want to log in as) and -p signifies…
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MySQL: Changing the root user’s password
If you need to change the MySQL root user’s password use the following from a command prompt: mysqladmin -u root -p password NEWPASSWORD Enter the current root password when prompted and replace NEWPASSWORD with the desired password. This should return you to the command prompt, and you can test whether it was…