Deleted Admin

[rootb]

Purely by accident, I have deleted the admin account at the foot of the 'get info' panel on my hard disk. I was getting no privileges after that (surprise, surprise) and upon restarting I get the grey apple icon and whirring icon below, that's all. I have tried an archive and install and to repair privileges. Still not working! The difference I have is that I deleted the admin icon from the hard disk 'get info' panel, but I still have my admin accounts intact, just cannot get to my desktop in any way. Please help, I really do not want to do an erase and install. Thanks.

 

[cwanja]

Did you ever do a Time Machine backup?? When you archive and installed, did you preserver the user settings??

Those were general questions, here is a possible fix:

1) Boot from your Leopard install CD/DVD (insert it, shut down, start while holding "C")
2) Choose your language.
3) When the menubar appears, select Utilities>Reset Password.
4) In the window that appears, select your boot volume (by default, "Macintosh HD") from the list at the top.
5) In the popup menu below the volume list, select an affected user. (One that you used "Apply to enclosed items" on).
6) Click the "Reset" button at the bottom of the window. This will reset the permissions (and ACLs) back to their default settings.
7) Repeat Steps 5 & 6 for every user on your machine who has this problem (except "System Administrator (Root)").​