It's been giving me trouble, i bought it on ebay and i got a new osx with it. i think it's 10.4
anyway..I start to setup my osx and get it working on the internet and BAM! problem, i go into the control panel (well, you know what i mean) and i enter the internet connection section. I am greeted with all fields/buttons greyed out with a padlock on the bottom left. it tells me to click the padlock to change settings, so i do so and i get comfronted with the username/password. I enter my username and pass and it tells me that i need to 'enter an administrator username and password'.
I then go into accounts, and check my account, again - all fields/buttons greyed out and i have the padlock bottom left. i look at my account and it says "standard" below it.
I go into netinfo and try to enable root user, no luck (need to be an administrator for that!) i click authenticate and i look around in netinfo for anything useful, i see the root user with the password as root. i then look at my own account and try to change the password, i then click the padlock again and it tells me i do not have access.
Then finally i try going into terminal and typing sudo su
It tells me and i quote
"Last login: Wed Oct 12 18:01:19 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
exsubs-computer:~ eXs$ sudo su
Password:
eXs is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported."
my password i put in is my password i set, i did also try my username with root, and a username of root with password as root, no avail.
thanks a lot if you can help me, if i can just get a administrator account i shall be sorted, or even convert my accout to administrator i'll be on my way, as it stands now, im completly stumped. i can't change any settings, i can't even save files anywhere other than my documents!
oh one last thing..
i have a windows computer with macdrive, so if i can externally edit the files from there to make my account admin that would be good.
thanks.
anyway..I start to setup my osx and get it working on the internet and BAM! problem, i go into the control panel (well, you know what i mean) and i enter the internet connection section. I am greeted with all fields/buttons greyed out with a padlock on the bottom left. it tells me to click the padlock to change settings, so i do so and i get comfronted with the username/password. I enter my username and pass and it tells me that i need to 'enter an administrator username and password'.
I then go into accounts, and check my account, again - all fields/buttons greyed out and i have the padlock bottom left. i look at my account and it says "standard" below it.
I go into netinfo and try to enable root user, no luck (need to be an administrator for that!) i click authenticate and i look around in netinfo for anything useful, i see the root user with the password as root. i then look at my own account and try to change the password, i then click the padlock again and it tells me i do not have access.
Then finally i try going into terminal and typing sudo su
It tells me and i quote
"Last login: Wed Oct 12 18:01:19 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
exsubs-computer:~ eXs$ sudo su
Password:
eXs is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported."
my password i put in is my password i set, i did also try my username with root, and a username of root with password as root, no avail.
thanks a lot if you can help me, if i can just get a administrator account i shall be sorted, or even convert my accout to administrator i'll be on my way, as it stands now, im completly stumped. i can't change any settings, i can't even save files anywhere other than my documents!
oh one last thing..
i have a windows computer with macdrive, so if i can externally edit the files from there to make my account admin that would be good.
thanks.
