[Osx-nutters] User name

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On 12 Sep 2006, at 06:23 , Jeff wrote:

>
> On Sep 11, 2006, at 9:11 PM, Chris Garaffa wrote:
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>> >
>> > 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?

Run netinfo manager,  enable the Root user, logout of your account,  
login as root, promote yourself to admin, log out, login as yourself,  
run netinfo manager, disable root.

Or, from the CLI, add yourself to the admin group with sudo.

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