At The Mac Admin, we primarily discuss Apple products and services, so we use Apple’s own style guide to describe them. When discussing any other vendors’ products we will use that vendor’s style guide where available. When a guide is not available we will use the vendors’ documentation as a guide. Jun 16, 2020 By default, Splashtop On-Demand Support (SOS) connects to a computer with privileges of the account that is currently logged in on that computer. In cases where you may need admin privileges, SOS also provides the option to connect as admin with Windows Administrator rights. Note: Requires Windows or Mac Business client 3.1.4.0 or newer.
Whether your IT department locked down your Mac or you grabbed one from eBay that the seller forgot to “clean up”, you may encounter a big problem when trying to install software as a non-admin.
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If you’re trying to install software on your Mac the first thing you should do is simply contact your IT department. They can use login to your computer remotely and installed the software for you. You may not like having to wait for IT but it’s not you’re computer so you shouldn’t install stuff on it. Also, you could unwittingly end up installing something that looks benign but is actually nefarious.
That being said, in an emergency there are two possible solutions:
When you see the application installation login window you can either beg for the admin password or try a little workaround that I’m about to show you.
First see if you can just drag the app icon into the Applications folder.
If that fails, you could try Control clicking the app and choosing Open Package Details to see if you can modify the info.plist file or whatevever.
There was on old hack that worked on older versions of Mac OS X that let you modify a string in info.plist which effectively disabled authentication. Well I haven’t found a way to get this work in Mac OS X Yosemite so I’m going to assume it doesn’t work anymore.
One other possibility is to boot the Mac to Single User Mode and use the Directory Services Command Line tool to join your non-admin account to the administrator group.
Reboot and hold down Command + s until you see a black screen appear with a bunch of white text.
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After a few seconds you’ll at something that resembles a Unix prompt.
First we need to mount the root file system so type
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This mounts the root file system for read-write access.
Then type:
Replace <usernameToBeGivenRoot> with your non-admin username.
If you need to list the users and groups you can type:
Press Enter, type reboot and login with your non-admin account.
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Ultimately, you shouldn’t try to “hack around” the password security mechanisms that prevent you from installing software. These features are here for a reason and unless you really know what you’re doing some of the tutorials out there can leave you with a broken PC and a chagrined look on your face when you call IT and they ask you what happened.
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After updating Mac or MacBook to macOS Catalina, you may encounter No admin account on macOS Catalina. Even sometimes, the admin account is recorded as a standard account on Mac. Most of the time, macOS will show no admin account when you migrate data from the old computer, Sometimes Accidentally delete admin account, or Corrupted Hard Drive or Data due to many reasons like buggy software, macOS Installation problems. Sooner or later, it won’t let you access the admin account on macOS Catalina.
There is only one way that one of the Mac users found to fix no admin account on macOS. You have to create a new account on Mac and then set up the computer as usual. Thereafter, you can change the standard account to an admin account from the Users & Groups menu. Learn how to get rid of no admin account on macOS Catalina,
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Also We can create more than one admin account or assign any Mac users to Admin role under the Mac System Preferences.
Fix No Admin Account on Apple MacHow Do I Recover My Administrator Account on Apple Mac?
Step #1: Click on the “Apple” menu.
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Step #2: Select “Restart”.
Step #3: When you hear startup chime on Mac press and hold the Command+S keys. Step #4: Release the keys when text appears on Mac.
if the command doesn’t return any error message that means command executed successfully.
Step #5: Type the following command, mount -uw/ and hit return key. or Use /sbin/mount –uw/
Step #6: Type, rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone and press enter. Step #7: Type reboot, and press enter.
Wait for few seconds, Mac will restart soon. and Go to create a new administrator account.
Step #8: Now, select “Language” and click Continue.
Step #9: Choose your “Country” and Continue. Step #10: Select the “Keyboard” and then click Continue. Step #11: Choose the Wi-Fi network to which you want to connect the Mac. Step #12: Next, Mac will ask you to “Transfer information to This Mac”. Tick Mark the boxes appropriate boxes and continue to begin the transfer. Step #13: “Sign in with your Apple ID” or click “Don’t Sign In” and skip this step. Step #14: Agree to “Terms & Conditions”. Step #15: Enter the following details to Create Admin Account on macOS Catalina and click on Continue. Step #16: Again hit Continue on “Express Setup Screen”. Step #17: Follow the path, Apple menu > System Preferences > User & Groups. Step #18: To make changes, click on the “Lock” icon on the bottom-left window and type the password to Unlock.
Here your problem of no admin account on macOS Catalina resolves. To make changes read the next step.
Step #19: If you would like to change the standard account to Admin account, then select “Allow user to Administer this computer”.
Another Ways to Create a New Admin Account or Assign Admin role to any Mac users
This is another tricky solution for the people who are not able to type a command like above or failed to perform command on Mac for any reason. follow the below steps and create & Use a new admin account on the same Mac system with different login Username and Password from the Mac Startup screen.
That’s it. also we can delete the admin account, To delete it select the account name and click on “-“ sign.
Also Select which types or deletion you required, to completely delete it, select last option and click on Delete button to remove admin account from Mac completely.
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