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So I am following How can I get admin access to a Mac without knowing the current password? to create a new administrator account.

I entered the command rm /db/.AppleSetupDone. and the computer prompts me with the following:

override -w---r-- /root/wheel /var/db/.AppleSetupDone?

(It says something like that) I type in: yes and then it says “read only file system”. After I reboot nothing happens, I don’t have to create a new account or do anything like that.

I suspect it is because the file system is “read-only” is there anyway around that?

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You did type in the command mount -uw / before you typed the rm /db/.AppleSetupDone, yes? –  IconDaemon Mar 19 at 17:20
    
Yes, I did type in that command –  user118790 Mar 19 at 17:32
    
The 'w' part of the mount -uw command should mount the disk read/write. Would you please edit your post to include the version of OS X on this Mac, please? –  IconDaemon Mar 19 at 17:43
    
/var/ is only a link to /private/var - does the same thing happen if you try to delete /private/var/db/.AppleSetupDone? –  Mikey T.K. Mar 19 at 18:16
    
Why are you wanting to do this? Are you trying to bypass account restrictions set by an administrator, for example? There is a very simple way of doing this but the question of why you're restricted to a non-administrator account has to be asked... –  ScunnerDarkly Mar 19 at 18:17

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