Help !! I lost my only admin account and I don't have the root
Hello evrybody
I bought a MacBook and I was very happy with it. But I played whith the netinfo and I changed my only admin account's short name then it turned into a standard account.
I did not active the root account and I have the two CDs , but when i boot frome the CD I only have one option which is updating the system.
Anybody can help me ??
Hi Saudi.
OOOPS!
If your daily cron job hasn't run since you modified the netinfo DB, you can reload from the "dump" of it taken each day.
Boot your system single-user (Apple-S) at startup. Type mount -uw / and then ls -l /var/backups/local.nidump. Check the date. Is it a copy of the unmodified DB?
If so, Follow the instructions here to reload the DB from the dump.
Good luck,
John
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