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what if the parental control is eabled for administrator, how to disable the parental control?

I tried to disable the parental control for the administrator, but after reboot, the parental control is still enabled for administrator.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Oct 10, 2012 3:06 AM

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Posted on Oct 10, 2012 3:43 AM

1st option

Try to log on on an another admin account on your Machine and change that.


2nd option

if there is no other admin you have to create a new user as an admin.


Reboot. When the screen goes black hold "command- s" to enter in Single user mode



type /sbin mount -uw /


its /sbin(space)mount(space)-uw(space)/


then enter


type rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone


its rm(space)/var/db/.AppleSetupDone


enter


Type Reboot


enter



The system, will restart with like setting up a new machine (dont worry your user files are not deleted)


set up a new account. then after that check teh user accounts on system prefrences. remove managed and boot on to your pervious user.



After managing to make your Previous usre an admin delete the other extra user that you created



Try to enable firmware password so that you can only do that to your machine. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352


Turn on Filevault to protect your files. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7033

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Oct 10, 2012 3:43 AM in response to Guorog

1st option

Try to log on on an another admin account on your Machine and change that.


2nd option

if there is no other admin you have to create a new user as an admin.


Reboot. When the screen goes black hold "command- s" to enter in Single user mode



type /sbin mount -uw /


its /sbin(space)mount(space)-uw(space)/


then enter


type rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone


its rm(space)/var/db/.AppleSetupDone


enter


Type Reboot


enter



The system, will restart with like setting up a new machine (dont worry your user files are not deleted)


set up a new account. then after that check teh user accounts on system prefrences. remove managed and boot on to your pervious user.



After managing to make your Previous usre an admin delete the other extra user that you created



Try to enable firmware password so that you can only do that to your machine. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352


Turn on Filevault to protect your files. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7033

Oct 11, 2012 3:46 AM in response to Guorog

Login to the newly created User (that yousaid is anon admin). Open Terminal App


type this


sudo dscl . -append /Groups/admin GroupMembership RealName "<
Your USER ACCOUNT NAME>
"


it will ask you for password. Type the password of your newly created account. If it does not work use the password of your previous admin account. If not we are going to reset the "root admin" password for this to work. You will need the Snow Leopard DVD to do that.

Reset the password with the Installer Disk.

Boot from DVD and use the Password Reset program

Oct 11, 2012 4:27 PM in response to Paldeng

The newly created user is admin, but it is also under parental control like the old admin account. And no matter which account I use, old or new one, the modification to the other account just doesn't work.

My MacBook Pro package doesn't contain Snow leopard DVD, and I tried to install it from Internet several times, but all failed. It reported at first that the whole process would need more than 9 hours, but later ended with failure.

Is there any method to reset the MacBook to the Initialize state?

what if the parental control is eabled for administrator, how to disable the parental control?

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