popsandthefamily Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 Hey, when i get to the login screen it gives me two user names but not admin how do i log in as admin? Thanks Pops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted January 21, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 21, 2004 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popsandthefamily Posted January 21, 2004 Author Share Posted January 21, 2004 all i know is that somebody told me there is a keystroke you can do at the login screen that gets it to admin, but what is this netinfo anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
**marisa** Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 ========> MOVE ME!!! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivand Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 i think this is not the place for this kind of thread, mods? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usr.bin Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadishTM Veteran Posted January 21, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 21, 2004 Thread Moved to Discussing Mac OS Radish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted January 21, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 21, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbalsh Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 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 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fusion Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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