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OSX won't recognize my password for admin rights
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<blockquote data-quote="markxmas" data-source="post: 1173235" data-attributes="member: 188380"><p>on snow leopard 10.6, this worked for me:</p><p></p><p>If all users are listed as 'standard' in their permissions, you need to use system administrator (root) to log in. Read up on root before you do this, but, for me, I restarted the computer with the Snow Leopard disk, selected repair permissions, changed the password of root, shut down, restarted, logged in as root and upgraded my original user account to admin.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="markxmas, post: 1173235, member: 188380"] on snow leopard 10.6, this worked for me: If all users are listed as 'standard' in their permissions, you need to use system administrator (root) to log in. Read up on root before you do this, but, for me, I restarted the computer with the Snow Leopard disk, selected repair permissions, changed the password of root, shut down, restarted, logged in as root and upgraded my original user account to admin. [/QUOTE]
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