I remember my password. But once i renamed the username it's not logged in with that password & username whatever i do! Even due to this i can't create new user, not even can't change time. How can i get rid of this? It's not working anyhow. Before renaming the username used to be auto refilled. I restarted macBook many times.
My device is MacBook pro, Apple M2. OS: Ventura 13.4
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MacBook Pro 13″
Are you saying you can login but not as an Admin user?
That would make you a Standard user and in order to carry out certain tasks you need to enter the Admin user's password.
When you initially went through the setup routine for a new Mac, you created an Admin user. Or was this a used machine that came with users already created?
I have no idea if this will work or not: https://macosx-faq.com/create-new-user-without-admin-password/
Are you saying you can login but not as an Admin user?
That would make you a Standard user and in order to carry out certain tasks you need to enter the Admin user's password.
When you initially went through the setup routine for a new Mac, you created an Admin user. Or was this a used machine that came with users already created?
I have no idea if this will work or not: https://macosx-faq.com/create-new-user-without-admin-password/
This is the proper process: Change the name of your macOS user account and home folder - Apple Support
Note the warning from Apple:
"Doing this incorrectly could damage your account and prevent you from logging in with that account. Make sure that you have a backup before continuing. These steps do not change or reset the password of your user account."
I'm not being abble to create admin account even. Whenever i click on 'add account', there's a pop up screen to enter administrator name & password to allow this. And this is the main problem. How can i solve this? I can't even being able to reset the whole macbook! is there any way to solve this? Thanks
I have only one user which is as standard. I can reset it's password through the icon. But don't know after going to advance options i can't unlock it! I have attached two pictures with below link, hope it'll be cleared to you. Thanks.
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The moderators deleted your pictures for privacy reasons no doubt.
It's clear to me what your problem is, you have no admin user and you need one to do certain tasks.
What is unclear is how that happened. That's not how the setup routine for new Macs works.
You said, "renamed the username". Were you an Admin before that? If so, then somehow you managed to change that to a Standard user. If you were never an Admin user I have no idea.
At this point, and hopefully others will comment, I'd wipe the drive and installing a fresh OS. But I'm fully prepared to do that it's not a big deal to me.
Now I want to reset everything to set up from the very beginning as there's no worry about data. It's okay if the data is removed. But it's asking for username & password whenever i try to do factory reset.
https://macosx-faq.com/create-new-user-without-admin-password/
This one worked! Thanks a lot! I am very grateful to you.
I don't have a MacBook Pro admin account
