Little-known options for the OS X login window

N'mind. I downloaded OnyX & tried using it. With it, unlike MacPilot, 'Option-Return' successfully added line breaks to my login welcome message...

There's also >exit

In the NeXT days, that caused the WindowServer to restart. Something similar seems to happen now, but given the rearchitecting of the windowing system since the Display Postscript days, it may not have quite the same effect.

and wheres the way to disable such nonsense?

huge security fail.

Here's what the problem was: both user accounts had the same password. Changing the admin password let me log into the system at the console.

never knew about these special logins - cool. unfortunately, when I try the >console option, the screen briefly goes blue, but then just returns to the login window. any ideas? thanks

I can't login on my system although I'm pretty sure, I didn't mistype my password. Do I have to enable that somewhere?

http://yfrog.com/h6j0mvmj

Even if you don't have the "show name and password" mode, you can still press cmd+option+up-arrow+return to force those fields to be shown. This only works if you have more than one user on your mac.

how do you enter your personal information?? i can't seem to figure it out

Hello,

I was trying to enter the personal info as shown above through OnyX but i cannot get it to show the same way, instead is shown all as a long sentence.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

The area code/first 3 digits of your phone number tells me TJ Luoma is a Gallipolis Ohio man?? That's not too far from me! Sweet!