Creating an admin account in Single User Mode

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Creating an admin account in Single User Mode

HI All

My son's school required he have a MacBook Air (it is only 4mths old). It was our understanding parents would have a user account created for them as an administrator however the school has locked it all down with them having the admin access only, while requiring us to use manage the internet filtering but this is not possible to do without admin access.

I have read a number of sites that say to do the following:

Boot into Single User Mode ⌘ + S.
Mount the drive by typing /sbin/mount -uw / then ↩ enter.
Remove the Apple Setup Done file by typing rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone then ↩ enter.
Reboot by typing reboot then ↩ enter.
Complete the setup process, creating a new admin account.

When I get to step 3 and press enter I am asked for a Y/N answer. If I say yes what I want to know is by me creating an admin account this way - will it in any way effect the current users - being my sons user account and the school's network administrator.

Will they still have access and the schools "image" not be effected

Advice greatly appreciated

Thanks

MacBook Air

Posted on Jun 5, 2016 6:08 PM

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Rythemax

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Nov 23, 2017 6:35 PM in response to CK_NorthRoy

Thanks! But did not work for me. It says No such file or directory! I am really stocked. Can't boot my mac due to lack of space on my drive. It's been like that for a year now and MAC support won't help cause they say my mac is out of date??? It's a 2011 super fast i7 quad core. We pay so much for their products and gets nothing! I have two drives. I just want to delete some files but the system will not alow me as I signed in with "single user mode" Tried prompt ls -l NOTHING WORKS! Ive tried sooooooooo hard with all I could suck out of the internet of informations. But I wont give up my machine. I have tried so hard to change the permission to rwx but nooo wont allow me.

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