[X4U] RE: Need to promote an account - Fixed

[lisa c]

Hi,
   I understand your point about not being able to remove the last admin 
account, however, if you have the root account enabled, which he said 
he thought he did, did they really remove the last admin capable 
account?
-lisa
On Dec 18, 2006, at 5:59 AM, poolmouse_nyc wrote:

> Mark Gibson <gibsonm at bigpond.net.au> 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.
>> 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!
>> -- Regards, Mark (}-: +61 (0)4 1927 7198 Skype / AIM / iChat: 
>> gibsonm1 All computers wait at the same speed.
>
> i suggest you submit this as a bug with apple. deleting the last admin 
> account should not be possible.
>
> 	http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/index.html
>
> we don't use user lists in login windows...we always make the user 
> enter username/password. at the very least, would allow you to just 
> reset root password in single user mode without needing to perform 
> netinfo command line acrobatics. ;)
>
> thanks,
> don
>
> don montalvo, nyc
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