Friday, May 6, 2011

Mac administrator account changing to a standard account

We have had several reports of Macs that have their admin account changed to a standard account.

The fix is to login to the machine as root, go to "Accounts", select the admin account and put a tick in "allow user to administer this computer".

If the root account is disabled or you do not know the password you will have to boot the machine from the OS DVD and enable the account/reset the root password.

Full instructions can be found here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1278

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