HELP! Locked OUT!

M

mbenc

Registered
Hey i just got a mac, it has OSX. I was messing arround with it and setting up accounts, and i got around to making the admin account. Well i didn't want my sister to have admin (IN retro it doesn't matter), how ever i make my account, and make it a admin. Well as it turns out as i made the account you had to have some "Finger board"? password. and i lacked that. not thinking i shut down the comp for the night.... and then went back in the morning to relise that all i had was a user level account. Can someone plese help?

Jeremy
 
That's not a standard feature of MacOS X. Do you have a fingerprint scanner attached to your computer by any chance ?
 
fingerboard password? Did you set a master password for the computer under Security in the Accounts section of system preferences?

In the user account, go to Accounts and click on Allow user to Admin computer.

The very first account you set up should have been your admin account.
 
it was but i ended up deleting it for some reason. However i did fix it. I booted it up using control +S and accessing the file system and changing the pass on the account. But thanks for the help!
 
I remember hearing somwere that OSX supports Voice prints? does it and i would love a fingerprint scanner would be sooo cool :D
 
I don't know if this is related or not, but we have some Macbooks at our school, and I received one back from a teacher that no longer works here. I need to clean it off, delete the old user's profile and reassign the macbook to another teacher.

The problem is, although the previous teacher has it set to automatically log in (and he's set as an administrator), I don't know what his password is. Typically I create a new user account, set it as administrator, log into that, then totally wipe out the old account. So, when I went to unlock the user account settings so I could add a new user it asks for the password, which I don't have.

How do I go around this? What can I do?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top