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Q: How can new owner change Admin to his own name?

I'm putting my late-2007 black 13" MacBook running 10.7.5 on Craigslist. Last night I wiped the machine using Disk Utility and reinstalled 10.7.5. Everything went just fine. I knew a new owner would want to know if the laptop worked, so I turned it on and could not get past a screen asking for a name. I entered Admin (short name became admin) and a password of Admin1.

 

That is as far as I went. Is there a way for the new owner to get rid of the "Admin" account/home folder and establish himself as the owner of the MacBook? I'm likely to be doing this for the person, so any help would be appreciated.

 

Out of curiosity, if I had not entered the Admin name, would the MacBook have started with the "select language," etc. when the new owner turned it on?

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

MacBook (13-inch Late 2007), Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Aug 27, 2015 9:17 AM

by tmbrowng,Solvedanswer
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A:

Limnos, the link to the superpixel file does not work, get a 404 error.

 

The guide for re-running Setup Assistant was promising...until it told me there was no file named .AppleSetupDone

Posted on Aug 27, 2015 10:16 AM

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