08-10-2009, 11:47 AM

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.

This is my work computer, which also holds many personal files.
I am running 10.4.11 on a G5 PowerPC
There was only ever one user account on the machine.

I went to change the short name using Netinfo Manager.
I changed the "name" and "home" to reflect the changes I wanted.
For the sake of this example, let's say the original name was "WORK" and I changed it to "Coz". So, "home" is now labeled as "/Users/Coz"

This of course wiped out the profile I've been using all along, created what appears to be a new Home account by the name of "Coz" and no other user can be selected at startup. In Preferences/Accounts, there's only this one -- and it's a Standard User. I have no admin rights because there appears to not be an admin password/name anymore.

But...

I can see my old files and everything still exist in the directory "/Users/WORK" -- yay. they're where they're supposed to be.

I just need to get WORK to be considered the home account again and make sure it's got admin rights. But that's hard to do when no one has admin rights at the moment.

Puhleez. Help.

08-10-2009, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by cozbaldwin

I changed the "name" and "home" to reflect the changes I wanted.

I can see my old files and everything still exist in the directory "/Users/WORK" -- yay. they're where they're supposed to be.

I just need to get WORK to be considered the home account again and make sure it's got admin rights. But that's hard to do when no one has admin rights at the moment.

Without admin rights, there isn't really anything you can do but wait until someone who does have admin rights can correct it.

This link will help them when they are available: Mac OS X: How to change user short name or home directory name

08-10-2009, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by D3v1L80Y

Without admin rights, there isn't really anything you can do but wait until someone who does have admin rights can correct it.

This link will help them when they are available: Mac OS X: How to change user short name or home directory name

There is no other user on the machine. The only user is a Standard User, now.
Admin rights have to either be assigned to the Standard User, or, a new account has to be made with admin rights.... which can't be done (through the Prefs panel, at least) unless an admin already exists.

08-10-2009, 03:13 PM

SOLVED!


Admin Hack | HackMac.org did the trick.

With that "hack", i was able to create a new user, an admin. Since it didn't wipe clean the data, i still had my old user on there. I made him an admin.
NOW, I could go in and edit those two areas in NetInfo Manager back to what they were. Whew. Now ive got two admin accounts and the original, so far, seems just the way I left it.

Hale-frikken-lujia.