Anyone seen this one:
On my wife's iMac 24" Core 2 Duo, Lion is running quite happily. However, tonight I tried installing an update to an application on her system.
Like normal, during the installation process, the system asked for an administrator password. What was interesting is that the user name was blank (as was the password, obviously). I entered her user name and password, and it wouldn't accept it. Since I have an administrator account on her system too, I entered my information. This was also not accepted.
I went to the System Preferences and went to Users & Groups, just to make sure our accounts weren't demoted to a standard User account. The current user logged in was listed as "AMaViS Daemon"!
Our accounts were listed there too, both as Admins.
We closed all the applications and logged out. The screen with our two user accounts appeared, but wouldn't accept either of our passwords. I rebooted the system and all is well again.
There is almost NOTHING on the Internet about this user account. Apparently this is one of several "hidden" system accounts for Mac OS X Server. Note: It's not the server edition of Lion installed on her Mac.
Any ideas? I don't expect to see this again, but it's an interesting bug...
On my wife's iMac 24" Core 2 Duo, Lion is running quite happily. However, tonight I tried installing an update to an application on her system.
Like normal, during the installation process, the system asked for an administrator password. What was interesting is that the user name was blank (as was the password, obviously). I entered her user name and password, and it wouldn't accept it. Since I have an administrator account on her system too, I entered my information. This was also not accepted.
I went to the System Preferences and went to Users & Groups, just to make sure our accounts weren't demoted to a standard User account. The current user logged in was listed as "AMaViS Daemon"!
Our accounts were listed there too, both as Admins.We closed all the applications and logged out. The screen with our two user accounts appeared, but wouldn't accept either of our passwords. I rebooted the system and all is well again.
There is almost NOTHING on the Internet about this user account. Apparently this is one of several "hidden" system accounts for Mac OS X Server. Note: It's not the server edition of Lion installed on her Mac.
Any ideas? I don't expect to see this again, but it's an interesting bug...
