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<blockquote data-quote="gnuchu" data-source="post: 996797" data-attributes="member: 143465"><p>Having a bizarre problem on my Mac and was hoping you guys could help.</p><p></p><p>My main user that I use every day is no longer allowed superuser privileges in the GUI. For instance, if you go to System Preferences/Accounts and 'Click the lock to make changes' it will always reject the password I enter with the message 'Try entering your information again.' and an 'OK' button.</p><p></p><p>I figured that the user had dropped out of the admin group but that is not the case. When I use 'groups' you can see that it is clearly there. I also have no problems using su & sudo from the command line. When you check the user with dscl it is still in the admin group.</p><p></p><p>I added another admin user from the command line using dscl and used that to remove and then re-add admin privileges from my main user but that didn't work.</p><p></p><p>I've also tried running Disk Utility and Repair Permissions but that hasn't worked either.</p><p></p><p>Am running a MacBook (early '09) with the latest version of Snow Leopard (10.6.2)</p><p></p><p>Any ideas?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gnuchu, post: 996797, member: 143465"] Having a bizarre problem on my Mac and was hoping you guys could help. My main user that I use every day is no longer allowed superuser privileges in the GUI. For instance, if you go to System Preferences/Accounts and 'Click the lock to make changes' it will always reject the password I enter with the message 'Try entering your information again.' and an 'OK' button. I figured that the user had dropped out of the admin group but that is not the case. When I use 'groups' you can see that it is clearly there. I also have no problems using su & sudo from the command line. When you check the user with dscl it is still in the admin group. I added another admin user from the command line using dscl and used that to remove and then re-add admin privileges from my main user but that didn't work. I've also tried running Disk Utility and Repair Permissions but that hasn't worked either. Am running a MacBook (early '09) with the latest version of Snow Leopard (10.6.2) Any ideas? [/QUOTE]
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