[X4U] Need to promote an account - Fixed

[Mark Gibson]

>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.

Hi,

Well a bloke by the name of Michael Conniff was able to sort it out 
for me on the Apple Discussion board.

Thanks for all who responded.

the details are here:

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3711219

Merry Christmas!
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Regards,

Mark (}-:
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