No administrator account... help

[bucketofsoupyum]

Hey so I just bought a used powerbook with Tiger from a friend and wanted to change the shortname from adam to chad... so I logged into root and changed it and logged back in and it was fine so I disabled root again... well now it says my account is a standard account and that their is no administer acount.... I am stuck... what do I do? here a screenshot of my user accounts page.

 

[ra3ndy]

Hate to say it, but it's time to Archive & Install from the system disc. Changing shortnames is NEVER a good idea. The system recognized the original shortname as the admin. Once it was changed, it basically created a new user, which doesn't have the "Allow user to Administer this computer" checked by default.

In the future, it's much less headache to create new users than it is to change existing ones.

 

[bobw]

Try this in Terminal;

mount -uw /
nicl -raw /var/db/netinfo/local.nidb -merge /groups/admin users youruser
reboot


Where it says 'youruser', put your user name there.

 

[bucketofsoupyum]

Hey my friend and I got it fixed, we went into single user mode and enabled SUDO then used SUDO to make me an admin again.