Julio Santos

I like to have just one admin account per box, which is also an account that is used just for admin stuff. All the normal accounts are just standard. Nothing weird there I don’t think.

Well, I just noticed that after last night install marathon, something else happened and now my (only) admin account is fooked. He’s just a standard account like everybody else. That makes it hard to do anything of course.

After some research, this is how you trick 10.5 into creating a new admin account:

- Reboot while holding Command-S to boot in single user/root mode
- type: mount -uw /
- type: rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone (actually I renamed it, just in case, but didn’t need to use the backup version)
- type: reboot
- 10.5 will think this is the first time you’re running the system, will ask you a couple of questions (registration, etc) and for an admin account. Create a temporary one now.
- Should be about it

I got to say though, I have to thank Apple for making it easier on us Windows refugees to upgrade the OS. I feel right at home with the blue screens and other snafus.