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Changing Account's Permissions...
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Vermont
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Hokay. Long story short, my friend's computer no longer has any admin accounts. I need to be able to change his account from a Standard account to an Admin account, using the command line (booting and holding S). Even creating a new account or "enabling" the root account would work, as long as he can like, get access to his computer again.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Mike Bombich's site has all the info and scripts you need for this.
Craig
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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And when I try running the /etc/rc script from single user mode or the >console login, it says variable 1 is unbound.. What does this mean? I'm trying to start the gui in single user mode, so that I can have root and change his standard account back to an administrative one.
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Under the Troubleshooting header, there are several topics in the Mac OS X Deployment paragraph. Select Mac OS X Management Custom Shell Script Library and then the info given for refresh-default-homedir.sh script and refresh-default-homedir-savetemp.sh.
You create a new fresh user account from the command line with that. You can then use that account for maintenance or repair of other accounts.
Very broad scope of tools available on that site. You may also want to go to Amit Singh's kernelthread.com. The info there about the startup sequence could be useful if you have made mods to the basic boot process scripts and files.
Craig
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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All those scripts appear to do is clear a home directory, and replace it with a default one. I don't see how I could create a new admin user... I'm confident that whatever I need to do has to be done through single user mode, as there are no working administrative accounts on this computer, and creating administrative accounts most likely requires an administrative password.
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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All I need to do is change my short name and it will work. I need to be able to do this with the command line in single user mode.
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Nevermind, I figured it out. Thanks anyway.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally posted by Frisbee:
Hokay. Long story short, my friend's computer no longer has any admin accounts.
Um, how did he manage that? OS X will not let you delete an administrator account unless there is another admin account available.
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