[Osx-nutters] User name

[Zachery Bir]

On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Jeff wrote:

> On Sep 11, 2006, at 9:11 PM, Chris Garaffa wrote:
>> >
>> > Can't you do it in NetInfo Manager?
>> >
>>
>> Yes!  But....
>> I did that (changed the name in NetInfo) and it seems to have
>> automagically changed my account to a non-admin account.
>> And so...tell me another good trick that you know :-)
>> What now?
>>
>> I used this utility: <http://www.macosxpowertools.com/content/ 
>> shortusername.html> a while ago under Panther. The site claims it  
>> works under Tiger, as well.
>
> Thanks, Chris.  Cool utility, but it still leaves me with my  
> original problem--I have no account with admin privileges.
> I would not have thought that that would be possible.  But, my  
> guess is that at this point, there isn't any way to get admin  
> privileges without some sort shady cracking kinda thingy.  So, does  
> anyone know how or if I can either get admin privs back for my  
> existing account; or, set up a new account with admin privs?

The members of the admin group are stored via shortname, not via UID.  
You changed your username, and that name isn't in the admin group any  
longer.

Zac