Administrator privileges

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Administrator privileges

For unknown reasons, both my account and my root account have been set to standard accounts. I have attempted the fix provided on the apple support page (boot w/start-up disk, reset root password, etc), but it has not effect. The root password works fine, I just can't set any accounts to have administrator privileges.

Any help appreciated.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Mar 5, 2011 3:27 PM

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Clio1

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Mar 5, 2011 7:09 PM in response to MarkCanada

If I understand the situation correctly then the following should work since you say you can log in as the "root" user.

Log in as the "root" user. Open the Terminal and paste in the following commands. Press RETURN after each:

rm /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/groups/admin.plist
cp /System/Library/DirectoryServices/DefaultLocalDB/Default/groups/admin.plist /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/groups/admin.plist

Restart and again log in as "root." Open Accounts preferences in System Preferences, select your default user account and make it the admin account.

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MarkCanada Author

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Mar 6, 2011 6:22 AM in response to Clio1

It worked - thanks! admin.plist was empty, and replacing it w/the default did the trick!

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