[Osx-nutters] User name

[Zachery Bir]

On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:54 AM, Jeff wrote:

> On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:47 AM, Zachery Bir wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Ah.  I see.  That makes sense.  Too bad I didn't think of that before.
> Will I even be able to reinstall w/o admin privs?

Did you enable the root user? Do you have any other users that are  
still admins? You may be able to reset some passwords via booting  
from the install CD, though I've never gone down that route.

Zac