Can't activate Guest Account... Sharing Only?

[MrCheeto]

I don't know how this even happened, but the Guest Account icon in the System Preferences can't be selected!

It doesn't show up in the login window and it has a orange checkmark circle next to the icon in the System Preferences and says "Sharing Only".

How do I disable this ********* little "feature" and get my account back???

 

[GGJstudios]

Did you click the padlock in the lower left and enter your admin password, to enable changes?

 

[MrCheeto]

Yup, a long time ago, even.

 

[GGJstudios]

Hmmmm. Maybe repairing permissions would help.

You might also try trashing /Library/Preferences/com.apple.preferences.accounts.plist and restarting.

 

[MrCheeto]

No Good 🙁

 

[GGJstudios]

No Good 🙁

Can you post a screen shot of the accounts preference pane?

 

[MrCheeto]

OK I can't ATM, but I remembered that the orange check-mark means it's logged in!

So it's not appearing on the log in list, but it's logged in still!!

I need to get access to that account without losing the data so I can go home! Otherwise it'll be another week.

So is there a way to log-in via the command line? I need to access data input to a website including a password. Would I even have to log in to get access to this? The only thing saved in Guest/Library/Keychain is login.keychain or something like that and I don't see anything when I open it in Keychain Access in another user.


1. Can I log in via terminal?

2. Do I even need to log in to access the data?

 

[MrCheeto]

Here:

 

[MrCheeto]

Even weirder! There are processes in Activity Monitor being run by Guest!

That means the files and processes are still in-tact!

Please help! I want to go home! <8\