Can Log into the computer but can't "click the lock to make changes" anywhere?

[puma1552]

What the hell?

I just upgraded to High Sierra, and originally I had no problems logging into the computer, nor entering a username/password where you "Click the Lock to Make Changes" anywhere in settings.

I didn't like that for some reason the initial setup resulted in my admin/user account using both my first and last name (just wanted first name), so went in to change it, and now everything is messed up.

Now I can log in to the computer itself (never did get that name changed to use just my first name), and I can change that password, but I still cannot ever login to anywhere where it says "Click the Lock to Make Changes". I would assume that the login for the computer itself and that login would be identical, yet they somehow are not? What the heck?

Might have to do a clean install again just to get past this and redo it, which seems ridiculous. All I wanted to do, as an admin, was edit the admin name of the freaking computer/account, and now I can't do anything. I tried the terminal "resetpassword" command and that did nothing.

 

[puma1552]

looks like the problem is that making ANY changes to the admin account automatically demotes it to a standard account which is asinine in itself, and even more asinine because you end up with a computer with no admin account at all.

wanted to just start over and create a boot drive to do a clean install, oh wait have to have an admin account to enter a password into terminal to do that too. had to then go find more terminal procedures to create an extra/new admin account just so i could create a boot drive so i could just start over with a clean install where this time i just put my first name where it says 'full name' when setting up the account.

this couldve been entirely avoidable if it just said 'username' or something.