Geek it up plz
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- Buckyball2
New girl at work gets old girls machine. New girl tries to install new programs like Flash 8. Message appears saying you need to have admin or higher level privelages to install. Which I thought everyone had.
She can log into the machine and certain name and password and it says that it's the Admin account in system prefs. But when we try and use the same set to get past that error window it doesn't take.
I tried rebooting from the OSX install disk and resetting the password but it still shows up as 7 dots not 4. And our password is 4 letters.
Other than blowing out the entire machine and reinstalling from scratch, is there any other way around this?
any help anyone could give would be appreciated.
- SLAZ0
can you ask the "old girl" what password she was using?
otherwise, I would do a complete reinstall anyways.. clean out all the crap.
- ********0
didn't you have some problem with a female counterpart and flash before?
- ********0
So the password is IN the computer?
- NYNY0
You can set ROOT access to the machine which old girl probably did. All macs come with root unset so it's easy to make your own root access when you're on a mchine.
- Buckyball20
Good memory Jaz. But that was file versioning in Flash.
Tick. God bless you.
NYNY - How would I set ROOT access on the current machine without a fresh OSX install?
thanks
- Buckyball20
Is this what you're talking about NY?
- rasko40
you SHOULD be able to change the password by booting from the install disk, dont know why you are having trouble there. Did you try creating a new admin user and then deleting the old.
If not it may be to do with the shortname which cannot be changed through usual methods, there is a terminal script out there which enables you to do this.. just google 'os x change shortname' or something.
- NYNY0
exactly.... You can find that stuff on apples site too.