My responsibility in the computer lab was to make sure that "computer "1 had access to certain applications throughout all the users. For example: Microsoft word needed to be "read and write" for Student 1, Student 2, and Student 3. One of the main things that i needed to do was make sure that all users were able to access parallels, in order to easily switch between 2 operating systems.
First off, before I am able to change anything, I needed adminstrator access to the computer, which I did not at the time. To solve this problem, I had done a simple hack to the computer. I went into single user mode, then I deleted ".AppleSetupDone" using this command:
rm -rf /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
Have you ever gotten a new Mac computer before? If you have then you should be familiar with the very first setup screen when you first turned on your computer. Once you have completed the setup, a file called ".AppleSetupDone" then instals on your computer to let the computer know, not to go to the setup screen anymore, but instead, bring you straight to the login process.
What I did, was delete this in order to go through the setup in order to gain my adminstrator access into the computer in order for me to make any changes. Once I set up my new administrator account, then I got straight to work.
I took the folders and applications of the programs that Ms. Ramirez had wanted me to make accessable to all the users, and one by one I changed the permission settings for each of them. It was time consuming, as I had to retype my password a thousand times, and I did not know any shortcut or command to temporarily disable the chain password.
Once I was done with that, I needed to put the parallels setup into the shared folder, for all the users of the computer to access it. Lastly, I checked two student accounts in order to make sure that my changes worked. "student 2" and "student 3".
I had discovered that my changes were successful, and that every user was able to access the parallels setup.
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