Admin User Screw Up - Need Help Please!

[tj2001]

bankshot, I just printed out you full instructions and I'm heading over there to try and get this resolved now.

I will post a update to this once I'm don. Thanks again and I sincerely appreciate your help

 

[Doctor Q]

I wonder if you could replace steps 4 through 9 with a single command, executed from the shell prompt:

echo "newuser ALL=(ALL) ALL" >>/etc/sudoers

This command appends a line with the contents between the double quote marks to file /etc/sudoers. There are spaces after echo and the close paren and the closing double quote. There is a tab after newuser (which is to be replaced with your user name).

The visudo command is safer in the sense that it parses and does some "sanity checks", but it requires you to use vi, which isn't easy if you haven't used it before.

 

[tj2001]

ALL DONE!

Thanks to everyone's help!!! The final steps that bankshot gave was perfect and went through it and fixed it perfectly! I sincerely appreciate it because it saved me from having to rebuilding the drive.

Thanks Everyone

 

[zimv20]

Originally posted by tj2001
Not quit sure on exactly what you mean...? So put in the install CD reset the root's or the user's password? Then what "console trick" are you saying the niutil?

glad you got everything working. some clever people contributed to this thread.

for future reference, i was suggesting logging in as console instead of single user, 'cuz you get more stuff. (e.g. the niutil daemon is running, iirc)

to log in as console, once you get to the login screen, when it lists usernames, select Other...

in the username field, type >console and your password. you'll end up logged in, but w/o the GUI.

for whoever asked about resetting the password from the CD, no, you don't need to have root enabled to do that, iirc.

 

[JupiterZen]

I hope this helps!

Bankshot,

Just letting you know I really appreciate you're information. In my case the 10.3.3 update screwed my admin user and I was about to go for the reinstall.

You're post has saved me a couple of hours reinstalling and getting al my software back together.

Thanx.

Regards,
JupiterZen