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I have two users logged on to my Mac OS X 10.5 system. When trying to reboot from one account, it tells me that other users are logged in and that I have to confirm the reboot with the credentials of an administrator.
Neither the credentials of the other logged in user nor any system administrators credentials are accepted.
What is wrong with my user accounts setup?
Thanks!
EDIT
I did some further research and there seems to be a bug with the UI confirmation buttons. So the resolution is to hit enter instead of using the "reboot" buttons, as described in the apple problem faq here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2317?viewlocale=en_US
However, even when doing this with the root user, the sysadmin account, this does not work for me...
As a confirmation; with the sysadmin account - can you use sudo on the command line? – Chealion – 2009-08-31T15:45:54.997
No I cannot... When I want to make users admin, as the sysadmin, the setting in the dialog persists only until the next opening... Going to reinstall OS X in a minute... – raoulsson – 2009-08-31T18:28:26.853
If you can not use sudo - you're not on the /etc/sudoers file meaning you're not recognized as an actual administrator of the computer. – Chealion – 2009-09-01T00:43:01.037
1I tried to edit that file. Of course it didn't let me. I opened the admin account, set password with the install DVD. My main account used to be admin but not anymore... Reinstalling now... – raoulsson – 2009-09-01T09:29:31.783