Ive been doing more Mac stuff lately and wanted to have an admin account on a mac that I didnt have any passwords for. I could have used the OSX disc but here is an easy way to create an admin account without being an admin. I only tried this on 10.5:
Restart the mac and hold Apple & S. It should bring up the terminal.
Hit enter after every line:
mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
shutdown -h now
Thats it. It should restart and setup OSX like it was for the first time. Make yourself an account and you are now an admin. This also leaves previous accounts untouched.
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