If you’re ready to share your Mac with others, you need to add new accounts using the Accounts pane.
To add a new user account, follow these steps:
All your pre-existing user accounts will still available, assuming they were not already erased prior to beginning this procedure. Do not elect to transfer your information from another Mac: When you get to the 'Transfer Information to This Mac' screen, select 'Do not transfer any information now' and press Continue. Have your existing Apple ID. The root user can access almost everything—at least, everything not protected by System Integrity Protection—which is a lot of power. Don’t create that power if you’ve no particular need to wield it, and under no circumstances should you use the root account for day-to-day computing. Creating User Accounts in Mac OS X. Here’s how to create an account for a user: From the Apple menu, select System Preferences. Select Users & Groups. Click the lock and authenticate with an administrator account. The window shown below appears. Click the + button to add a new user. The window shown below appears. If you have access to your Mac, you can turn this setting on by clicking the Apple menu and selecting 'System Preferences.' Click the 'Users & Groups' option, then select your account. Click the padlock button to unlock the settings, then click 'Allow user to reset password using Apple ID.'
1. Open System Preferences and click the Accounts icon.
The Account pane appears. If you haven’t added any users to your system yet, the Users list should look like Figure 1. You should see only your account, which you set up when you installed Mac OS X, set to administrator (admin) level.
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Figure 1: A typical first look at the Accounts pane.
2. Click the New User button — which carries a plus sign — to display an empty user record sheet (see Figure 2).
If you have just updated your password in your OS X, it might happen that you can’t access your system because you don’t remember your new password.
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Figure 2: Setting up a new user account.
3. In the Name text box, type the name that you want to display for this account (both in the Accounts list and on the Login screen) and then press Tab to move to the next field.
Mac OS X automatically generates a short name for use as your screen and Buddy name in iChat AV and various network applications. The short name is also the name of the folder that Mac OS X creates on the computer’s hard drive for this user. You can keep the default short name or type a new one, but it must not contain any spaces.
4. Press Tab again.
5. In the Password text box, type the password for the new account.
Click the question mark next to the Password field, and Tiger is happy to display the new Password Assistant, complete with a suggestion. Click the Suggestion drop-down list box to see additional suggestions. You can choose the length of the password and select from several types: letters and numbers, memorable, or completely random. To insert a password from the Assistant, use COMMAND+C to copy the password, click in the Accounts Password text box, and then press COMMAND+V (or click the password and drag it to the Accounts Password text box).
As always, when you enter a password or its verification, Mac OS X displays bullet characters for security.
6. Press Tab, type the password again in the Verify text box, and press Tab again.
7. (Optional) If you decide to use the password hint feature, you can enter a short sentence or question in the Password Hint text box.
The hint is displayed after three unsuccessful attempts at entering the account password.
Don’t use this option. Think about it: Any hack could type in anything three times to get your hint to pop up! If you do use this option, at least make sure that the hint is sufficiently vague!
8. Press Tab to continue.
9. To grant this account administrator-level access, enable the Allow User to Administer This Computer check box.
If this check box remains disabled, the user receives a standard level account.
10. Click the Create Account button to finish and create the account.
The new account now shows up in the Accounts list and in the Login screen.
What is macFUSE?
macFUSE allows you to extend macOS's native file handling capabilities via third-party file systems.
Features
As a user, installing the macFUSE software package will let you use any third-party FUSE file system. Legacy MacFUSE file systems are supported through the optional MacFUSE compatibility layer.
As a developer, you can use the FUSE SDK to write numerous types of new file systems as regular user space programs. The content of these file systems can come from anywhere: from the local disk, from across the network, from memory, or any other combination of sources. Writing a file system using FUSE is orders of magnitude easier and quicker than the traditional approach of writing in-kernel file systems. Since FUSE file systems are regular applications (as opposed to kernel extensions), you have just as much flexibility and choice in programming tools, debuggers, and libraries as you have if you were developing standard macOS applications.
How It Works
In more technical terms, FUSE implements a mechanism that makes it possible to implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program on macOS. It provides multiple APIs, one of which is a superset of the FUSE API (file system in user space) that originated on Linux. Therefore, many existing FUSE file systems become readily usable on macOS.
The macFUSE software consists of a kernel extension and various user space libraries and tools. It comes with C-based and Objective-C-based SDKs. If you prefer another language (say, Python or Java), you should be able to create file systems in those languages after you install the relevant language bindings yourself.
The filesystems repository contains source code for several exciting and useful file systems for you to browse, compile, and build upon, such as sshfs, procfs, AccessibilityFS, GrabFS, LoopbackFS, SpotlightFS, and YouTubeFS.