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Alright, I think I may have messed up a bit here. To be perfectly honest, I was curious about the difference between a regular user and admin account, so what I did was, rather than create a basic user account, I turned my admin one into a regular user account. That was probably a mistake.
So now, in trying to make my account an admin one again, when I go to try and unlock and after the prompt to put in a username and password, it won't recognize the password even though it is correct. I do understand that it may not be working since I dubbed my account a standard one and that my name is no longer associated with an admin account anymore, but I also have my wife's account setup as admin, and that's of no use either.
I went into her account, tried to change mine from her side, but I can't even highlight my standard account from her side, which I don't get. The other thing is that when I do anything which then prompts OS X to have me enter an admin name and password (for some reason Yahoo IM needs me to allow incoming connections every time I open it, even though I set that to be allowed in firewall settings), all I have to do is cancel the prompt and it works just fine. Seems redundant and stupid.
Is there anything I can do to restore or fix what I did, or will I have to re-install OS X ?
Doug
So now, in trying to make my account an admin one again, when I go to try and unlock and after the prompt to put in a username and password, it won't recognize the password even though it is correct. I do understand that it may not be working since I dubbed my account a standard one and that my name is no longer associated with an admin account anymore, but I also have my wife's account setup as admin, and that's of no use either.
I went into her account, tried to change mine from her side, but I can't even highlight my standard account from her side, which I don't get. The other thing is that when I do anything which then prompts OS X to have me enter an admin name and password (for some reason Yahoo IM needs me to allow incoming connections every time I open it, even though I set that to be allowed in firewall settings), all I have to do is cancel the prompt and it works just fine. Seems redundant and stupid.
Is there anything I can do to restore or fix what I did, or will I have to re-install OS X ?
Doug