Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-203.126.140.131-20130417035550/@comment-38057738-20190105083325

71.178.141.34 wrote: how do you become an admin I know im late coming in this but I hope you see this!

There are 2 ways (that i know of)

The computer admin can make you admin, which is the usual way.

However, if you want to get admin acces without the admin giving it to you here is something special you can do:

Shutdown your computer.

Then reopen it WHILE pressing  Cmd+S.

when your normal user login comes up login as you would.

Then you will se a black terminal thing there, with no GUI

Type in these commands as follows:

mount -uw /

rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

shutdown -h now

So now you did that reopen your computer and you will be greeted with some options.

Just calmly go through them.

Notice that you dont have to enter a wifi password on that screen because your current data and settings will remain, so you dont lose anything. then also skip the icloud sign-in and then give all information necessary.

I also recommend putting the username and password of the user something you will remember, as you will be using that account.

After you get  into the account all you have to do is shutdown again and then the next time you open your computer  you will see one more account!

now login to that account and you are admin. Congrats!

Now if you also want to give admin to your previous account than go to System Preferences >> Users & Groups. once you are there click the lock icon on the bottom left. IT will ask you for a password, enter the password of the admin account you created. then you choose the name of your normal account from the menu on the left and

Now all you have to do is go to the Apple Menu (Top left of the screen) and then logout and login to your normal user and TA DAAA!! You now have admin.