On Tuesday, October 30, 2007, at 08:45AM, "Matthew Parry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The solution for this issue is to create a root account and then >assigning admin privileges to the relegated account by starting in >single-user mode and entering these commands: > >mount -uw / >passwd root (you will be prompted to create a password) >passwd yourusername (again, you will be prompted to create a password) >shutdown -r now >You can then startup normally, login into the root account and assign >admin priveleges as you choose. To Alex, Ranger, Peter and Matthew Many thanks for your assistance in analysing, diagnosing and resolving the issue of administrative privileges on Leopard. I am up and running in 10.5 now and compiling a fink package as I write. Matthew, the recipe that you gave me worked like a charm!! All the best, Ebrahim ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
