tigafan09 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I am on a vanilla install 10.5.6. I have it set to where it should require my password when I come back from the screensaver but it does not ask for it. Please help. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trauma! Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Go to system preferences, security..... Bye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigafan09 Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 As i stated in my post, I've been there and have it set correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagertolearn Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 try creating a new account, change the autopassword option, then delete the account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeblough Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 okay, when i migrated to a new hack this stopped working for me. what i did: (not sure which of these things made it work) created a new account fast user switched to that account turned on 'require password' activated screensaver it asked me for the password. logged out of new account logged back into main account activated screensaver did not ask me for my password. deleted new account. deleted ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist opened system prefs, checked 'require password' activated screensaver did not ask me for my password. deleted ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist again moved ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.screensaver* away logged out logged back in activated screensaver it asked for my password! slept woke it asked for my password! opened system preferences. found that 'require password' was unticked! ticked it again for good measure. reconfigured screensaver to my liking. it's working, for now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeblough Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 scratch all of that... when it forgets to use the password, the following seems to work: 1) uncheck 'require password', close system prefs 2) log out 3) log in 4) check 'require password', close system prefs 5) log out 6) log in again and it should be working. although it seems to forget after rebooting, and possible just randomly forgets while you are still logged in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts