[X4U] Need to promote an account

[Neil Laubenthal]

Are there any other admin accounts? If not . . .and if the root  
account wasn't enabled . . .I don't know of any way to do it.

Might be something sneaky I don't know about though.


On Dec 15, 2006, at 02:40, Mark Gibson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A colleague has somehow demoted the admin account on his machine to  
> merely "standard". Amazingly enough he can now do very little on  
> the machine. :)
>
> I tried creating a new "admin" account but I need an current one to  
> unlock the padlock.
>
> Any ideas on how I can "promote" an existing standard account back  
> to "Administrative" status?
>
> Happy to futz around in the Terminal or single user mode if that's  
> what's required.
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