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How To Install Software Without Admin Password Mac

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You can boot from installation media and use that to reset your password. To do this: Boot from installation media, or, if the Mac OS version is recent enough, from internet recovery. Once in the installer, Utilities --> Reset Password will allow you to reset the password of the administrator user. See this link for. How can I get admin access to a Mac without knowing the current password? Ask Question Asked 7 years, 1 month ago. It is possible to reset the admin password to a Mac quite easily providing you have the correct install disc to match the version of the software that is running on the computer. Resetting the password does not delete any of. Install.PKG without Admin password (macOS. How to make your account an Administrator's account (Mac OS X. How To Log Into Windows 7 If You Forgot Your Password WITHOUT CD OR SOFTWARE!!

I'm trying to understand how to fix my Mac package developed in Packagemaker (that comes with Xcode 2.4.1) to install on OS Lion 10.7 without requiring admin privileges when it is being run as a standard user. In 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, I was able to install this package as a standard user without admin privileges. The contents of the package are installed into the user's home folder, so no additional privileges should be required.

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Does anyone know how to do this? Or why the package would now require root permissions?

Or does anyone know if there are new restrictions in OS Lion that all installations require administrative privileges short of having an app bundle package that you just drag the app bundle to your home folder?

I looked on developer.apple.com, but haven't been able to find any information.

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It is likely an issue with the trust of the software vendor, in this case, you.

By default, Gatekeeper is set to ‘Mac App Store and identified developers.’ This means that a Mac running Mountain Lion will only run applications you have downloaded from the App Store or applications that have been signed with an official Apple Developer ID. This helps to prevent malware from infecting your computer, as it makes it harder for malicious software posing as real applications to be installed by the user.

You have to sign your installation packages with your developer ID. Odds are, that version of packagemaker does not prompt you for it, or it is less obvious how to do it. See this about signing for lion. Making OS X Installer Packages like a Pro - Xcode Developer ID ready pkg

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Make sure that it installs for just one user by default. If it does an install for all users root is required.

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I have an administrator account and a standard user on my computer based on Windows 7. But I forgot the administrator password and now I only can log in with the standard user account. I tried to change the admin password but it asks to type administrator password. Is there any way I can change admin password without admin rights?

Most operations in Windows cannot be done without administrator privilege, such as installing, running software, managing another user account, and so on. Once you lose admin rights, you could hardly use your computer. Luckily, there are still ways to change admin password without admin rights and regain administrator privilege and be the administrator.


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Way 1: Change administrator password with Windows Password Refixer

Windows Password Refixer is a program with which you can change any account including administrator password without login to Windows.

Step 1: Burn Windows Password Refixer to a USB/CD drive.

As you only can log in to your own computer with a standard user account, you cannot install any software on your own computer without admin rights. Download, install and then launch Windows Password Refixer on another computer you can access as administrator. Then connect a USB or CD/DVD flash drive to the computer. Follow the program’s guide to burning it to the flash drive so that you can get a bootable disk.

Step 2: Change Windows admin password to blank.

1. Connect the bootable USB or CD/DVD flash drive to your own Windows computer on which you’ve lost administrator rights and need to change its password. Start or restart the computer from the bootable USB or CD/DVD.

2. Once your computer boots up, it will display the Windows Password Refixer screen. It displays Windows running on your computer, and all user accounts on your Windows.

3. Select to highlight the Windows and the administrator whose password you need to change. Then click the Reset Password button. Click Yes to agree when it asks whether you want to set this admin password to blank. Then your administrator password will be changed to blank immediately.

4. After that, click the Reboot button and take out the bootable flash drive from the computer. Then Windows will restart normally. And you can log in as administrator without a password. Thus you regain admin rights.

Way 2: A password reset disk makes you change admin password without admin rights

A password reset disk also can make you change or remove password without login to Windows. The premise is that you previously created a password reset disk for your administrator account when you still have admin rights.

When you attempt to login to Windows with a wrong password, you will fail. At the same time, you will get a Reset Password link on the login screen. Click the link and insert your password reset disk to your computer. Then follow the Password Reset Wizard to change the administrator password. After password changed, you can log in as an administrator with the new password and regain the administrator rights.

In addition: All versions of Windows have one built-in administrator account automatically created while system installation. This account has higher rights than admin account. Generally, this built-in administrator is hidden and disabled by default until you manually enable it. So, if you ever enabled the built-in administrator account when you still had admin rights. Then you can change your admin password by switching to log in with the built-in administrator.

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