Boot the machine from the OS X installation and up in the menu bar you will find an option to reset the passwords.
Following the instructions and all should be well after the reboot.
P
Hi,
I'm the only user of my computer and have not touched any of the administrator settings. However, when I recently tried to install a piece of software I was given an error message saying that administrator level privileges are required for the install.
I checked my account prefs and everything should be fine: I'm the administrator (of course). I didn't have a password before but I've started using one and that works fine and I can modify it, no problem.
And yet, still, I can't seem to install any software because the software installer doesn't think I'm the administrator. This has happened with 2 separate installers.
Eep?
Does anyone have any insight as to what's going on here?
Thanks in advance,
Patrick

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