Easy way to manipulate SHARING accounts in Mavericks?

[FMiguelez]

Hello.

I did some research regarding this, but it all seems like a mess... Some people post some Terminal commands, some advice against it, etc. There's lots of contradictory information out there, and I don't feel comfortable messing with things I don't understand (the Terminal).

Does anyone have a reliable method to be able to see, delete, change accounts that have been created as Sharing accounts?

For some reason, Mavericks doesn't show them under Accounts in the Preferences. I know they're there, but it doesn't show them. I need to change the passwords and reset them all for all my computers (I can't even delete them because they're not visible).

Thanks!

[MIDI Life Crisis]

For ML but maybe you can try it... Google is your friend (so an I!)

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4404

[mikehalloran]

Terminal is your Friend.

On a Mac, you can copy and paste into Terminal. Since case and spacing are critical, this is a most useful feature.

I keep a RTF document with all my favorite commands and use them frequently.

Some commands that used to work in ML and earlier versions of OSX no longer work in Mavericks. The Mavericks version of these same commands are backwards compatible. An example would be the commands that unhide and hide hidden folders and documents. Many web sites have variations that used to work but don't anymore - these are correct:

Re-launch Finder: This is way cool. It relaunches the Finder in a few seconds without the time or issues caused by Force Quit. Allows certain tasks to take effect without rebooting and does not interrupt a Time Machine backup (!!!).

killall Finder


Show Hidden Files: This is basic to many other tasks.

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

killall Finder


Re-hide hidden files.

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE

killall Finder