Admin name change, password requirement
How do I delete/change my admin name? Also I have tried and tried to get rid of the password requirement to login? Can anyone help with these?
MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.14
You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
How do I delete/change my admin name? Also I have tried and tried to get rid of the password requirement to login? Can anyone help with these?
MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.14
Hi moongoddess63,
Getting rid of your administrator password entirely is a serious security threat. Anyone can make system-wide changes to your Mac and can even enable the superuser with little to no effort. In addition, if you have any passwords stored on your Mac, anyone could access your passwords and hack into your accounts. I recommend keeping your admin password and simply delaying or turning off Screen Lock:
If you still really want to remove the administrator password, you could try going to Users and Groups preferences (inside System Preferences) and changing the password for your account. I don't know if this is possible or not, but hopefully macOS will accept nothing in the "New Password" field. Take note, though, that this may be impossible with FileVault enabled, as your password is used as a key into the startup disk.
In regards to changing your user account name, please see this support article: Change the name of your macOS user account and home folder - Apple Support
Hi moongoddess63,
Getting rid of your administrator password entirely is a serious security threat. Anyone can make system-wide changes to your Mac and can even enable the superuser with little to no effort. In addition, if you have any passwords stored on your Mac, anyone could access your passwords and hack into your accounts. I recommend keeping your admin password and simply delaying or turning off Screen Lock:
If you still really want to remove the administrator password, you could try going to Users and Groups preferences (inside System Preferences) and changing the password for your account. I don't know if this is possible or not, but hopefully macOS will accept nothing in the "New Password" field. Take note, though, that this may be impossible with FileVault enabled, as your password is used as a key into the startup disk.
In regards to changing your user account name, please see this support article: Change the name of your macOS user account and home folder - Apple Support
Admin name change, password requirement