[X4U] Need to promote an account

[Mark Gibson]

At 14:16 -0800 15/12/06, Mark Paul wrote:
>You can check on Netinfo Manager. One option may be to boot from a 
>System CD and create the account from there.
>
>On Dec 15, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Mark Gibson wrote:
>
>>At 17:00 -0500 15/12/06, Neil Laubenthal wrote:
>>>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.
>>>>--
>>
>>No I'm afraid she "demoted" both her own account and the "emergency 
>>use only" admin account i had setup.
>>
>>I think root is enabled (but have forgotten how to check).
>>
>>If it is can I "fix" it via the terminal or single user mode?

By "System CD" do you mean a 10.4.x DVD or the System Restore discs 
that came with the machine, I have both.

Either way what is that procedure (apart from "erase and install")?
-- 

Regards,

Mark (}-:
+61 (0)4 1927 7198
Skype / AIM / iChat: gibsonm1

Our greatest fear is that the Internet will become a vehicle of free 
distribution of information.
                               --Ken Wasch, President of the Software
                            Publishers' Association, 5 September 1995