Admin is not admin

Question

sorry for my english!
from 1 week ago, my admin account is not admin:
impossible to install pkg (error -60008):
authorizations are repaired, but no change.
impossible to unlock System Preferences.
I create the "root user" before this problems. but I cant not access to Directory service.
have you issue for me?

Answer 1

Daniel, For completeness; if you set up root, good practise is to disable it after use. If you did not, root should still be enabled and available to you with correct password. You could use the install disk boot to change/set root or any password.
Prescribed way to enable root is, as I suspect you already know, to use Directory Utility. The 10.6 root to it is through Accounts in Systewm Preferences. Click on 'Help' in the finder and ask about Directory Utility. Click on the option in dialogue for 'Enabling root user'. In brief it tells you to use an admin PW (problem for you), to unlock the little lock. then choose to join 'Network Account Server'.
The above might give you problems as your admin is not admin. You could, as suggested use the boot from install cd route to get root up. i suggest another way, at least at first.
Directory Utility, is now an application, it lives in .System/Library/CoreServices . Don't worry about playing with .System. All you are going to do is to find the Dierectory Utility application. Do that>>highlight it>>drag the icon to the dock in the apps section. Make sure Core Services still has the actual app. It should have. You now have a direct, and shorter, route to Directory utility. By the way, I suggest you do all this in the admin user login. that way the no admin will not have access so to this important application.
The next, which you will know, is to enable root>>login to root>>make the 'admin' a real admin>>log out of root>>log into admin>>check he does administer>>use admin and the Directory Utility dock shortcut to open DU and then disable root. QED