Accidentally changed my admin account to standard and now have no admin access for Macbook Pro OS Ventura 13.6.3.
Hello, I was recently given a Macbook pro from my employer that I've been using for several years, and wanted to change the admin account to my name. Long story short I added a new one, but then realised I could change the name of the existing one (and still have access to all my files/setups etc..) was having issues getting it to stick and upon latest restart, I had changed the only admin account to standard.. Now I have no admin account so cannot download apps/make system changes etc.
Have tried following various instructions from older enquiries re: this same issue, but none have worked for me.
For example when trying to use the command S restart - I don't get localhost in the terminal, I get -sh-3.2# instead, and none of the commands I've entered from previous instructions have worked. For example trying to mount the device as read write it gives me the error message failed with 66..
I am wondering if it is because those instructions don't work for my OS Ventura 13.6.3.
I don't have firevault turned on, don't seem to have a firmware password and there is no time machine backup file for me to revert to..
I look forward to hearing from someone who can hopefully assist with this dilemma.
Thank you!
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.6