Nuisance--- admin password required for Onyx or Cocktail

I don't use an Admin password, but OS 10.74 requires a password, not a blank password, so run Cocktail or Onyx. I enjoy having no password, and no one else uses my laptop. It's a nuisance to add a password, run Cocktail or Onyx, then delete the password in Prefs. The authors of these two utilities assert that Apple requires a password, not the authors of these two fine utilities.
Anyone know a workaround so the password space can be blank ?

MacPcConsultant wrote:
Administrator accounts should not have a blank password
Administrator user accounts that have a blank password (that is, no characters at all for the password) will be unable to use sudo functions in Terminal.
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Yep. I knew that. But that doesn't mean it's convenient or judicious or necessary. While Apple has made some improvements in Apps and OS, there is a growing list of issues.
Your specific issue is that you don't wish to have a password. That is fine, but do not expect everything to work in your favour just because of your decision to be lazy. Third Party Apps are NOT Apple's responsibility. It is up to them to keep up to date.
Unfortunately for you, it IS necessary to have a password to access Terminal.
If you believe that Apple should have a User Option for this, then tell them. We don't write the software.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Good Luck
Pete

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