Guest account on mac is my admin
I have my mac only a month and I could install apps but now, my guest account is an admin and I cannot download nothing.
my mac 27 inch version is high sierra.
I have my mac only a month and I could install apps but now, my guest account is an admin and I cannot download nothing.
my mac 27 inch version is high sierra.
>System Preferences>User & Groups make changes here.
macOS Sierra: Set up users, guests, and groups on your Mac
admin changed to standard how to set an admin in High Sierra
>System Preferences>User & Groups make changes here.
macOS Sierra: Set up users, guests, and groups on your Mac
admin changed to standard how to set an admin in High Sierra
What I think is happening is that your account was demoted to a standard account - something which has been seen, unfortunately, quite a few times recently.
Unless you can offer some evidence to the contrary, that does not mean the guest account is now an administrator. It means there is none.
Now for how to solve this:
Follow the instructions, for example, in this site: ...
You are going to have to boot into single user mode, so you may want to print out the instructions beforehand.
To summarize it:
1) Start in Single User Mode by holding down Command-S at startup.
2) Type the following commands at the prompt:
/sbin/mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.applesetupdone
reboot
3) Your mac will restart normally, except that it will appear like it is starting for the first time - you will be asked to create a user account. This new account will automatically be an admin. Name it, say, "admin", choose a password, and do not choose to import anything.
4) Logged into this new admin account, go to System Preferences->Users & Groups and give yourself the administrative privileges again. Click the padlock, enter the admin password, select your usual account on the left and check this box:
The guest account is not an admin.
Please clarify the situation:
-how many accounts are there currently on your mac? Just yours and the guest?
-it appears that your account has lost its admin privileges. Did you try changing the account name? This has been known to cause this problem
If the situation is what I think it is, all is not lost. There is a procedure to force the creation of a new admin account, after which this account can be used to restore the privileges of your account.
For the future: always have an extra admin account on your mac.
I have no idea about how my guest account turned into an admin account. I have only one account and the guest one, But somehow, the guest became admin. And when I want to download apps, I request for name and password of admin, and I don’t have because this is the guest..
But I need to make changes and I cannot do that without name and password of admin. And my admin is the guest account.
Thank you very much!!! It works 👍
Guest account on mac is my admin