Re: OT: permissions

["David Auerbach" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ("auerbach")]

I’m running OS/x and using Office 365 and not having problems.  Pretty much once I’m logged in I’m logged in.  Occasionally for purchases or certain kinds of expirations I have to relog in. (Not that it’s relevant but I use 1password for all that stuff.)  Could you be more specific about the context(s)? (There are a few utility programs that need to be granted access via system settings or third-party calendar programs that need a generated password, but those are set and forget).

On Mar 18, 2023, at 10:30 AM, Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry for the off-topic, but I'm being driven to despair by the constant requests for user name (or "apple ID") and passwords just to run my own programs, both in Win and OSX Monterey. I can't even save a file in Word 365 without giving a password. (I use Dashlane, but it almost never works and is extremely awkward.)

So is there some way, in Windows and/or OSX, to turn off the whole internal password scheme? I mean to go back to the way things were before they introduced users\[your username]\ where there is no issue of getting told this or that program doesn't have permission to do that (write to the cloud or save to the root directory, for example).

Thanks in advance.