My mac doesn’t have an administrator acount and now cant do changes or update my mac
My mac has no admin account
My mac has no admin account
The "mount -uw /" command that frequently appears in these kinds of tutorials won't work in macOS Big Sur or later. This is because the root volume is a sealed snapshot, and cannot be modified or mounted as read-write.
In macOS Catalina, that command will also fail, because System Integrity Protection blocks the system volume from being mounted as read-write.
To delete the .AppleSetupDone file in macOS Big Sur via Single User Mode, follow these steps to mount the Data volume (which contains the file in question, and can be modified). Note that this probably won't work in macOS Catalina.
I still have a couple Macs running Big Sur. I see what I can find out in a bit.
dialabrain wrote:
See this article to create an admin account: https://www.lifewire.com/create-new-admin-account-for-login-issues-2259976
The instructions on this page are incorrect.
Mxdm_1 wrote:
is there a way to bypass the not permitted
I'm not having any success. I get the same can't mount/not permitted message except mine was 66. Hopefully someone will have an idea.
Hmmm im really desperate now i dont want to delete everything.
Well, wait and see if anyone else responds. Good things come to those who wait.
Have you tried your mom's username and password?
thank you i will try this now.
I have little problem with mounting -P 2
What i found is that those methods dont work with bigsur i tried everything i could. the .AppleSetupDone even changed to .AppleDiagnosticsSetupDone and i cant find that file. In single user mode its says that such file it doesnt exist.
only thing is to just delete everything but i dont want that.
My mac doesn’t have an administrator acount and now cant do changes or update my mac