Re: Admin account suddenly changing to a standard one

On 2007-07-24 12:48:45 -0500, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

On 2007-07-24 08:23:45 -0500, George <me@xxxxxx> said:

I changed the short name of one of my other accounts
(with admin privileges, the only one having them). Now, when I rebooted
the system I could login but the account whose short name I changed - the
account with the admin privileges - is no longer recognised as an admin
one, but as a standard one. When I try to change the short name back, it
will tell I have no rights to update the /Users/newshortname copy.

It's obvious you don't know enough to be making these kinds of changes without learning more.

Changing the short name of a user account is anything but simple. There are many things you must do to make that work. Please see <http://homepage.mac.com/frakes/ChangeShortName.html>.

Also, there's really no need for you to enable or change the password for the root account to begin with. Anything you need to do can be done with "sudo" from an administrator account.

Given your level of experience, and assuming you have backed up your important data, I'd say the easiest and fastest way to recover from the changes you've made would be to simply re-install the operating system and restore your data from backup at this point.

I came upon a web page today that shows how to recover from renaming your home directory that may help you:

<http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/renamehomerecovery.html>

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JR

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