User Problems!

sts24

sts24

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I have a flat panel iMac with the SuperDrive and one day I wanted to change the short user name with NetInfo Manager, which I thought was the right way, and I did something wrong and now it looks like that there is no adimistrator and only a normal user. When I want to change something in the System Preferences, like the User password, the little lock is locked and clicking on it brings up the panel where I put in the password, I put in the right one and it says I didn't give the right password.

By the way it is running Mac OS X 10.1.2 and I have tried reinstalling the OS and reseting the password. All to no avail. Thanks for your input.
 
You must activate root. You can do it via Netinfo, there is a "security" menu item.

You can also boot from cd and before you choose to install check the menu right from the apple menu, there is a menu item "reset password".

Henk
 
I tried getting root access with reset password and the Enable root account item in Netinfo is inactive. I can't think of any thing else to do. If worse comes to worse, I will reformat the drive.
 
Are you able to create a new user? If so, create a new administrator account. You could then try to change the ownership of your old user's files (either in the Terminal, or using a utility like XRay or BatChmod) so you can use them in the new account.
 
you may be able to manually change the shortname of you ruser back to the original shortname via the terminal with one of the netinfo CLI utilities...

are you sure that you cannot set the root passwrod with the pasword util after booting from your 10.2 CD. then login as root and create the new user and delete the old bad one and give all theold files to the new user...
 
So I need to activate Root. But in NetInfo the Activate Root Account is grayed out, ever after Authenticate. I could log in as root, but I the login is set to the list of user icons instead of a prompt. I can't change it to a prompt because I can't unlock with the password in the Login pref pane. I tried resetting the password and the root password on the OS X cd. Nothing works. Would I have to login as Single User? Is there anything in the command line I could do?

-sts24
 
This may work...

Login as root in Single User Mode and edit this file: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist

change your 'username' to 'root'

exit single user mode and maybe now it will have root as the last logged in user in the loginwindowand just enter the root password...
 
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