I just bought a used Powerbook a few days ago and one of the first things I did was rename the adminstrator and change the password, that went fine until a few hours later I created a standard account with the same name. Now it seems as tho the administrator account has vanished, it no longer appears in the account information and is not available at boot time either. To make things worse, I cannot change the settings back as it asks me for an account name and password and the old one does not work, nor does the new one.
This wouldn't be too problematic except the Combo drive is broken so I cannot recover from the OS X cd.... I've checked arround in the terminal and from there I can see both accounts in the \Users directory, one belonging to the group "staff" and the other to "admin", both directorys are owned by the same user. My home directory is actually the directory belonging to the "admin" group. As a side note, the root account has not been activated yet, when I try to activate I am again prompted for the administrator name and password so I am unable to activate it.
I suspect the way to fix this would be to boot in single user mode and change the admin name, but I haven't got a clue how to do this. Any help would be really appreciated, thanks.
This wouldn't be too problematic except the Combo drive is broken so I cannot recover from the OS X cd.... I've checked arround in the terminal and from there I can see both accounts in the \Users directory, one belonging to the group "staff" and the other to "admin", both directorys are owned by the same user. My home directory is actually the directory belonging to the "admin" group. As a side note, the root account has not been activated yet, when I try to activate I am again prompted for the administrator name and password so I am unable to activate it.
I suspect the way to fix this would be to boot in single user mode and change the admin name, but I haven't got a clue how to do this. Any help would be really appreciated, thanks.