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.
Ultimately, you shouldn’t try to “hack around” the password security mechanisms that prevent you from installing software. Press Enter, type reboot and login with your non-admin account. And you have to assume the access to your data can happen without you knowing it (an administrator can simply take backup of the system and access the backed up files offline leaving no trace on the system). If you need to list the users and groups you can type: dscl. A user with administrator privileges can read all your unencrypted files. This mounts the root file system for read-write access. Reboot and hold down Command + s until you see a black screen appear with a bunch of white text.Īfter a few seconds you’ll at something that resembles a Unix prompt.įirst we need to mount the root file system so type mount -uw / 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. 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. There was on old hack that worked on older versions of Mac OS X that let you modify a string in ist which effectively disabled authentication. If that fails, you could try Control clicking the app and choosing Open Package Details to see if you can modify the ist file or whatevever.
