mac dvd drive administrator and password needed

I've disgraced myself by admitting that I hit return for my passwords. I sure hope you guys can straighten me out. All this leads me to believe that Apple may have planted or reserved the term 'System Administrator' for some elusive purpose, I dunno. I can, of course overtype 'System Administrator' to FOOBAR999 or whatever I named as my admin username, hit carriage return, then Disk Utility works. just to see what would happen, I tried creating an account named 'System Administrator' and it wouldn't let me. So, I look at my list of users and there is no 'System Administrator' listed per se' and I didn't create one and name it that.

Excuse me a second while I hypervenelate. I haven't tried my root pw, but I will when I get home (gasp, hope I can remember it). So I tried my own password (which is simply a carriage return since I don't use a password) - nope, no go. Username reads 'System Administrator' (not admin) and the password field is then blank.

I can boot into it normally with admin rights and without being challenged for a password.Īll is fine, until I run disk utility, then I am challenged for. My emergency (2nd internal drive) is where the wierdness comes from. My primary volume (internal drive) boots up normally without challenge and password since I elected not to use a password (yeah, I know it's shameful to do that). First, thank you very very much for your replies.Īs a sole user of that Mac, I'm admin no matter what.

Mac dvd drive administrator and password needed