Admin password incorrect, but it's 100% correct. macOS Monterey

Open Users & Groups System Preferences.

Select your username.

Is the Allow user to administer this computer set or not set?

If it is not set, you have lost your admin privileges. You will need to create a new admin user to fix your current user's privileges.

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250002676

Note that on Monterey, your Data volume may be named just, "Data" and not "Macintosh HD - Data"

You said ". I've re-installed the OS and i'm still stuck in this loop. ". Did you do a fresh install by first erasing the startup disk and installing Monterey? Or dod you reinstall Monterey over the existing install with the loop problem?

What specific MacBook Pro? Apple Silicon on Intel?

The file is stored on the data drive, so you must get to it from the mounted data drive.

When you open Disk Utility, the name you need to use is shown there for the data drive, whether it is "something - Data" or just "Data."

The path will be as I noted, /Volumes/Data/private/var/db/.Applesetupdone

Hey there, can I confirm whether this wipes all of the data on the hard drive?

No. Deleting a single file has never resulted in wiping all of the data from the drive.

If you delete the top-level folder from the drive, you would delete all of the data off the drive.

I used the interactive mode of the command so that if you accidentally hit enter while in the middle of typing the path, it will ask if you really want to delete that file/folder. That command also cannot delete a folder (unless it is empty), so even if you were to approve deleting the Data folder, it would fail.

Thank you.

I have run the command with with double quotations with both: rm -i "/Volumes/Macintosh HD - Data/private/var/db/.AppleSetupDone"
and rm -i "/Volumes/Data/private/var/db/.AppleSetupDone"

but not having any luck. i know it must have deleted as it says 'no such file or directory'

perhaps an issue that i am not mounting? You said to Mount, but my 'Macintosh HD - Data' only option is to unmount, so i left this alone

I guess I need to clarify that statement more. It is only if you have FileVault enabled will you have to mount the Data volume. Otherwise, it should be mounted automatically. Just check to make sure to use the name of the Data volume as you find it in Disk Utility.

Use the list command to show what is in that directory.

ls -al "/Volumes/Macintosh HD - Data/private/var/db/"

Somewhere at the top of the list should be .AppleSetupDone

If you get any errors, post them.

Or, just list the Volumes folder so you know what is in there:

ls -al /Volumes

If you don't see Macintosh HD - Data or you see two Data volumes, post what you find.

I found it difficult to type out the name, my issue was I kept typing a minus, which threw up Errors like 'Volume not found'

So I copied the actual data disk name from 'Disk Utilities' in Recovery mode. (Exited Terminal and continued to Disk Utilities'

Literally clicked on the name with Data 'Macintosh HD – Data' (Right Clicked 'Copy' or CMD+C.) Then went back to the Terminal, and pasted the name after typing the rest. So no errors

Succeed after copying the name. Typed 'y' then restarted.

There is Only One user account on this computer ?

i think so once you need again to reset the password with which you can access the password on MSNBC

Hey there, can I confirm whether this wipes all of the data on the hard drive?