Guest account and airport keychain bad

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I've been getting this weird issue on about 20% of my newly imaged machines where the guest account doesn't work (the blank passwork isn't accepted) and the airport always needs the WPA password entered everytime the computer is restarted or woken from sleep. I think I have isolated it to the system keychain but all my attempts to resolve this has come to nothing. Has anyone ever experienced this?

Any help would be much appreciated.

-Danny

[bkvines]

Danny,

I had a problem with Guest accounts on some machines I imaged for a project. They were supposed to behave as a standard Guest account -- no password required -- but instead, trying to log into that account would prompt for a password.

I ended up having to run a script on these computers to remove the password from the Guest account.

The script was set to run at reboot. In a nutshell:

#!/bin/sh
dscl -u adminusername -P adminpassword . -passwd /Users/Guest ""

In my implementation, "adminusername" and "adminpassword" were replaced with valid admin credentials.

For that project, I wasn't worried about having the admin credentials in the script; it only executed after reboot upon imaging.

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Bryan Vines
Systems Administrator
Watts | Guerra | Craft LLP