Bring back old style logon panel in Windows 7

The following procedure modifies Windows' registry. Proceed with caution.

Launch Windows' registry editor, Regedit.exe. Go to the following location.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

In the right side pane, change the key's value of

dontdisplaylastusername

to 1.

If you don't see any dontdisplaylastusername, create a new DWORD key. Name it dontdisplaylastusername and set its value to 1.

Possible values of dontdisplaylastusername are

0 - The name of the last user who logged on successfully appears in the Log On to Windows dialog box. This setting is designed to make logging on faster and easier.

1 - The User name field in the Log On to Windows dialog box is blank. This setting is designed to enhance the security of the system by not displaying a valid user name.

Standard user can't FTP on OS X default FTP service

If you, like me, are used to work with a standard user and need, for a number of reason, to enable OS X's FTP service ( Enable FTP service in OS X Lion ), typical case is multifunction printer sending scanned documents to your Mac, you'll be surprised to know that you cannot login successfully unless you are an administrator.

host01:~ admin$ ftp localhost

Trying ::1...

Connected to localhost.

220 ::1 FTP server (tnftpd 20100324+GSSAPI) ready.

Name (localhost:admin):

331 User admin accepted, provide password.

Password: 

230 User admin logged in.

Remote system type is UNIX.

Using binary mode to transfer files.

This is what happen trying to login with a standard user

host01:~ example$ ftp localhost

Trying ::1...

Connected to localhost.

220 ::1 FTP server (tnftpd 20100324+GSSAPI) ready.

Name (localhost:example): 

331 User example accepted, provide password.

Password: 

530 User example denied by SACL.

ftp: Login failed

User example denied by SACL

SACL stands for Service Access Control List, that is, Access Control List applied to services.

Honestly I don't know if this is a normal behavior on pre OS X Yosemite's version. I'm actually running 10.10.5.

Anyway, the problem is easy solvable following the instructions below.

Open Terminal and issue the command

dseditgroup -o edit -u admin -a example com.apple.access_ftp

The password asked is admin's password. The command above add (-a) the user example to the group com.apple.access_ftp by the administrator user admin. It also works if the user you are issuing it, is a standard user. 

To remove (-d) example from the com.apple.access_ftp group issue

dseditgroup -o edit -u admin -d example com.apple.access_ftp

 Addendum 

The procedure described above is also valid for OS X El Capitan