Lost Admin User

I lost my admin user profile on my mac. All files, programs and preferences have vanished. Any idea how to find them/get them back? Last thing I can remember using was Time Machine to backup my iTune libraary and Pics. 500G's. Other user profiles (non-admin) have their personalized info remaining.

Did you try resetting your password, take a look this link, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4798

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  • I lost my admin user

    Note: this is not a replacement for I lost my admin user, which probably ought to be renamed "I lost my admin user (OS X 10.4 and earlier)", but that Tip will not work with Leopard.
    I lost my admin user (OS X 10.5)
    If you are unfortunate enough to delete your only admin user, or remove his admin capability, then as long as you have another user with login capability, you can give that user admin rights as shown below. You can then re-create the original user or reinstate the admin capability using NetInfo Manager.
    Print this post out in a mono-spaced font, and type carefully, paying attention to spaces and punctuation, since you cannot copy/paste in Single User mode.
    Caution: in single user mode you have root privileges. Be careful! Substitute the name of 'youruser' below.
    Boot into single user mode (Command-S) at startup which will eventually get you a shell prompt (ending in #). Then type the following:
    fsck -fy
    Repeat the above until it says your disk is OK. Then continue with
    mount -uw /
    dscl . -merge /groups/admin users youruser
    If you get a message saying "invalid path", then type these two commands first:
    dscl . -create /groups/admin gid 80
    dscl . -create /groups/admin passwd '*'
    and then repeat the "nicl ... -merge" command. Then:
    reboot
    You will now be able to login as 'youruser' and have administrative privileges.
    Membership of the 'admin' group is the only thing that distinguishes administrative users from ordinary users.

    Revised to incorporate Niel's corrections:
    I lost my admin user (OS X 10.5)
    If you are unfortunate enough to delete your only admin user, or remove his admin capability, then as long as you have another user with login capability, you can give that user admin rights as shown below. You can then re-create the original user or reinstate the admin capability using the Accounts Pane in System Preferences.
    Print this post out in a mono-spaced font, and type carefully, paying attention to spaces and punctuation, since you cannot copy/paste in Single User mode.
    Caution: in single user mode you have root privileges. Be careful! Substitute the name of 'youruser' below.
    Boot into single user mode (Command-S) at startup which will eventually get you a shell prompt (ending in #). Then type the following:
    fsck -fy
    Repeat the above until it says your disk is OK. Then continue with
    mount -uw /
    dscl . -merge /groups/admin users youruser
    If you get a message saying "invalid path", then type these two commands first:
    dscl . -create /groups/admin gid 80
    dscl . -create /groups/admin passwd '*'
    and then repeat the "dscl ... -merge" command. Then:
    reboot
    You will now be able to login as 'youruser' and have administrative privileges.
    Membership of the 'admin' group is the only thing that distinguishes administrative users from ordinary users.

  • 'kmosx: I lost my admin user'  Not working Unix Guru required!

    Hi,
    My Dual G5 decided (by itself) that I was no longer qualified to administer it and has removed the admin privileges from my account demoting me to a standard user.
    I tried Michael's 'kmosx: I lost my admin user' guide but am getting a Unix error after trying the 'nicl -raw /var/db/netinfo/local.nidb -create /groups/admin gid 80' command.
    The error is 'create: invalid path'
    I've successfully repaired the disk using the fsck - fy command and have no errors. I've also have write privileges on the disk.
    Basically if there is a Unix guru that could assist it would be most appreciated.
    Cheers

    Ok, thanks for the support so far. I've ran the nidump -r /groups / command and it just hung there doing nothing. I had to ctrl+c to stop it. The same thing for the users.
    I had a look in the local.nidb directory and I have a range of 'Store.xxxx' files with various dates. Would it be possible to revert back to a previous netinfo db? I'm assuming that these files are previous versions. The most recent is yesterdays Store.672 when I noticed the problem.
    Also, in single user mode is it possible to create a new user with admin privileges? I could then use that user to change my login to admin and then remove the newly created user. Or does it have to have a record in the netinfo db?
    If I remove the .AppleSetupDone file and re-run the setup program what will I lose? Will this overwrite any personal files (I have 30Gb of photos and databases that although backed up would I can still access through the standard user)?
    Thanks in advance.

  • Lost preferences, bookmarks, screensavers, etc on Admin user.

    Hello,
    My husband accidentally lost all of our preferences on our computer, bookmarks on Safari, screensaver folders, etc. We are under the Admin user is but cannot figure out what has happened or how we lost everything. We have logged in/out and shut down, reinstalled Snow Leopard. It started when he was on Safari and locked up, then don't know what "discussion" him and the computer had but apparently the MAC won!!! Can someone please tell me how to fix it?
    Thanks

    If you have only one Admin account on the machine, your going to have to so this trick to create another, in doing so the Library folder of this new user will be created and you'll have control of the computer again.
    Hold the command and s keys and reboot the computer, a scary black screen appears with a lot of white text runs down the screen, wait until it's finished and backspace to clear any extra ssssss....
    Type the following commands at the command prompt, and then press Enter after each one:
    Don't make a mistake
    mount -uw /
    rm /var/db/.applesetupdone
    reboot
    mount *space* -uw *space* /   then press enter
    rm *space* /var/db *space* .applesetupdone  then press enter
    reboot then press enter
    The Mac OS X Setup Assistant screen should appear after the reboot, just as it does when you start up a brand new computer or upgrade to a new version of Mac OS X.
    Create a new user account with the Setup Assistant. Be sure to name this user something different than the admin user that already exists on the system.
    At the end of the Setup Assistant process, the system will automatically log into this new user account.

  • Single user mode, Lost Admin Account, and Disk Permissions

    Okay, so I have quite a few issues here. I will start from the beginning.
    About a week ago, I tried to install some updates and I could not get the Admin account to work. I went to the users profile and noticed my Admin account was not there. Did a quick search and found Apple's outline of how to fix this via the Operational DVD and the root user. Tried this and it would never work, because as soon as I restarted the computer or changed screens it switched back to a standard account.
    Next up, I went into the terminal to check the Admin User group. As it turns out it is not there. So I find a discussion on there that outlines how to rebuild this in single user mode and the Unix prompt. So, I print it off and try to restart in single user mode. After trying two different keyboards and a sum total of 8 to 10 times, I can't restart in single user mode to get to the Unix prompt.
    One last thing, last night I went into the Disk Utility on the start-up DVD. I wanted to check the Repair Permission log and I got the following:
    ACL found but not expected on "private/var/root/Library/Preferences"
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    Thoughts?
    Thanks for your help!
    tpp

    first, the ACL messages can be ignored. if you can't get to single user mode you can't fix your admin group. the only reasons that I know why you wouldn't be able to do that is
    1. a defective keyboard
    2. you have a firmware password set. have you? you'd have to turn it off before you can get to single user mode.
    lastly when you restart in single user mode make sure you press command+s right after you hear the chime. do not press it too early or too late. lastly, I'm not sure which instructions you've found to fix the admin group but I have them in this thread
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8011324

  • Weblogic admin user password change w/o disrupting existing users

    Hi Folks,
    As a business policy we need to change the password of the admin user in weblogic after a cycle of specific period.
    Please let us now how can we do that without losing the other existing users in 'my realm.'
    I understand that we can use the weblogic.utils.security.AdminAcoount utility to give the new password, which will create a new DefaultAuthenticatorInit.ldift file in +<domain-home>/security+ folder (according to Doc ID 1082299.1).
    The password will change but the users in 'my realm' will be lost. (there are many users and it is a production environment so recreation is out-of- question)
    Is there a way we can retain the users and still proceed with the password change?
    Cheers,
    Jeegar

    Hi Jeegar,
    This can be doen by followin the standard procedure by login to console and navigate to :-
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    ---Logout from the console and login to the console again using the new password
    But when the server starts it do not read the password for the user directly from the realm rather it picked the same from the $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/AdminServer/security/boot.properties
    Now in order to make this change available when the server starts change the values for the username and password in boot.properties and specify them in plain-text and save the same.
    Now next time whenever the server will start it will pick up the new values from the boot.properties and once the same had been accepted those will be encrypted again.
    You might have to make the change for the boot.properties for all the Managed Server if you have the Managed Servers in the domain which will be located at the location $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/<<Managed Server Name>>/data/nodemanager/boot.properties
    You can test the steps on some lower environment first and try the same in Critical environment once the testing goes successful.
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    Vijay
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  • Box appeared "clean your mac" then lost admin rights in some files, box appeared "clean your mac" then lost admin rights in some files

    box appeared "clean your mac" then lost admin rights in some files. How can i restore those rights?

    This sounds like you may possibly have been infected with MACDefender.
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    The new MACDefender malware was first noted on April 30, 2011 by users of the Apple Support Communities, and was highlighted on May 2 by antivirus company Intego. If the right settings are enabled in Apple's Safari browser, MACDefender can be downloaded to a system after a user clicks a link while searching the Internet.
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    More details here:
    http://www.reedcorner.net/news.php/?p=138#more-138
    However, users must still agree to install the malware after it downloads. After the ZIP file is extracted, users are presented with the "MACDefender Setup Installer," at which point they must agree to continue and provide an administrator password.
    Because of the fact that users must agree to install the software and provide a password, Intego categorized the threat with MACDefender as "low."
    Users on Apple's support forums advise killing active processes from the application using the Mac OS X Activity Monitor. MACDefender can then be deleted from the Applications folder by dragging it into the trash. There is also a 'MacDefenderKiller' uninstaller available here:
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    On May 24 Apple issued this Knowledge Base Article on how to avoid or remove the MacDefender malware (which has been updated several times):
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    Further information here:
    http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?olo=email&NewsID=3282245
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    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1387
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    http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?olo=email&NewsID=3283550
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  • Lost Admin Password

    Hello .
    We lost the Admin Password .......
    So I proceeded like this:
    1.- Logged into the database as SYSDBA
    2.- Changed the APEX user’s password, in this occurence the username was: APEX_040000
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    Any sugestion ......
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    Go to Apex root directory (the one that contains APEXINS.SQL). From the command prompt, connect as SYS to the database.
    Now run APXXEPWD.SQL (it changes the password for the INTERNAL ADMIN user).
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  • Lost Admin Privileges

    I lost my Admin Privileges and am now a "standard" user. I need to reacquire my Admin status. I tried following the steps under Michael Conniff's "I lost my admin user", but it didn't work. I never got to the OK after putting in 'fsck -fy' Have the instructions changed since they were posted on Jan. 28, '04?

    Hi
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  • Lost Admin userid and password - iOmega EZ Media & Backup Server

    Bonjour, How I can reset the admin user password and ID ?   I have trusted my browser to store this information, but seems to be lost.  I have tried to get to the admin panel to upgrade to the latest firmware... Any options without erasing the content of my Iomega EX ?
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    Hello SPicard,
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  • OS 10.4 - Major Shortname/Admin/User Problem

    I've never quite screwed anything up this bad before. For now, let's try not to concentrate on WHY I did these things... just that they're already done... and I severely regret them.
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    Ive looked at most of these before - and they all seem to not quite be helpful enough, or too confusing to make sense of. Or, the suggestion didn't work for me. I'll look through again, though.
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    +http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1428?viewlocale=en_US+
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    *Attempted to use ChangeShortName app but cannot without admin rights.*
    +Apparent 'Loss' of Home Folder:+
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  • Lost Admin rights, can't change PW from install disk

    I just installed the update to 10.4.11 and my main user lost it's admin status. It was the only admin I had set up.
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    Hi Beth, and a warm welcome!
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    "Try Disk Utility
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  • Unable to enable security and create admin user after reset - px4-300d

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    If you are unable to get into it you will not be able to do the factory reset. You can try booting in buy removing one disk at a time. If you are still unable to then tech support should be able to supply you with the imager and try flashing it. I would keep it at 4.0.8 also,

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