119. Grant Admin Capabilities to Another UserBEFORE YOU BEGIN 117 About Administrative Responsibilities 118 Add a New User SEE ALSO 120 Restrict Another User's Capabilities (Parental Controls) 122 Delete a User Your own account, created when you first started up your Mac, is an Admin account ; it has the inherent capabilities necessary to change any of the System Preferences , install software, and perform many other system-modifying actions. Every new user account you create begins life as a standard user, without any of those administrative capabilities. However, you can grant Admin status to any other users you select if you want to share that administrative authority. When you do so, the other users you empower can modify other user accounts, install software, and change pretty much anything about the system. 119. Grant Admin Capabilities to Another User You should not grant Admin status lightly. Allow only those people you trust completely with the computer to be administrators. Granting Admin status to a user of your computer is equivalent to giving them your house or car keys and the implicit permission to do whatever they want with them. NOTE You must be logged in as an Admin user, or able to authenticate as one using the lock icon in the Accounts Preferences , to grant Admin capabilities to another user. Also, you cannot perform this operation on a user who is currently logged in. The user must log out first.
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