Re: Lost Administrator Privileges

2009-08-10 Thread Vladimir James
On 09/08/2009, at 11:07 PM, Warwick Smith wrote: Hi WAMUGers Does anyone have a 'quick fix' for lost administrator privileges. My personal PowerBook G4 (Mac OS X 10.5) now asks me for an administrator name and password three times before I can use system preferences, and no longer

Re: Lost Administrator Privileges

2009-08-10 Thread Ronda Brown
On 09/08/2009, at 11:07 PM, Warwick Smith wrote: Hi WAMUGers Does anyone have a 'quick fix' for lost administrator privileges. My personal PowerBook G4 (Mac OS X 10.5) now asks me for an administrator name and password three times before I can use system preferences, and no longer

Re: Lost Administrator Privileges

2009-08-10 Thread Mark Secker
oh yeh forgot the major step at the beginning . back up your user home drive data to an external drive first... mark.sec...@uwa.edu.au Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU) Computer officer, Business School IT Services The University of Western Australia - CRICOS

Re: Lost Administrator Privileges

2009-08-10 Thread Mark Secker
fix' for lost administrator privileges. My personal PowerBook G4 (Mac OS X 10.5) now asks me for an administrator name and password three times before I can use system preferences, and no longer accepts my user name and password for any changes. When reviewing my system account

Lost Administrator Privileges

2009-08-09 Thread Warwick Smith
Hi WAMUGers Does anyone have a 'quick fix' for lost administrator privileges. My personal PowerBook G4 (Mac OS X 10.5) now asks me for an administrator name and password three times before I can use system preferences, and no longer accepts my user name and password for any changes

Re: Lost Administrator Privileges

2009-08-09 Thread Robert Howells
On 09/08/2009, at 11:07 PM, Warwick Smith wrote: Hi WAMUGers Does anyone have a 'quick fix' for lost administrator privileges. My personal PowerBook G4 (Mac OS X 10.5) now asks me for an administrator name and password three times before I can use system preferences, and no longer