how to log in as admin in mac os x


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I can't remember if OS X has an admin account, the default user is setup as Admin and that's it I think. You can enable the root account in Netinfo although what are you trying to accomplish?

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You will need to enable the root account (by creating a password for it) so you will need to open up Terminal and then type

sudo passwd root

It will prompt you for your current Administrator password (your password) to enable sudo, then will prompt for the new password for root and then ask you to confirm.

I don't believe that root will actually show up on the login screen, so you may need to make it so you can input the Name and Password of the accounts. To do this, open Sys Prefs and go to Accounts. Then look at login options and change the option of Displaying the Login Window from "List of users" to "Name and password". Then relogin and at the login screen type root for the user and the password you had just created for the root account, and you've got access to the root account.

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You can't login to the GUI as root. However, you can give yourself or other accounts Admin access which will essentially make you an admin.

Thats not entirely true:

You can login to the GUI with Root quite easily, enable Root using NetInfo (you'll need to se a password the first time you do this) then go to the login screen.

Press Down+Option+Enter then enter the username Root followed by the password you just set.

Be VERY careful you can cause a hell of a lot of damage using this method, much better to just sudo using the terminal :)

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You can't login to the GUI as root. However, you can give yourself or other accounts Admin access which will essentially make you an admin.

Ya I have logged into the GUI root account many times. :huh:

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