MAC OS X tiger help for a Windows technician

[Karl Kuehn]

On Jun 13, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Dan Shoop wrote:

>> On the other machine I need to be able to give administrator  
>> rights to a
>> new user. If the user does not know the old employees account  
>> details is
>> there a way to access a default ( if there is one on MACS) account on
>> the machine so I can edit the users rights?
>
> Enable root, and login as root. Read the docs for how to do this.

	I am going to advise against this. It is not good practice to enable  
or to log in as root. You can get everything done by simply checking  
the "Allow user to administer this computer" checkbox in System  
Preferences->Accounts. You have have the credentials of a  
administrative user to do this (unless you know your way around  
single user mode and nicl... I do not recommend that unless you  
really know what you are doing).

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		Karl Kuehn
			larkost at softhome.net