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Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by Angostura on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @07:52AM (#15337819)
Exactly. Or just enable the guest account. That's what I always do.
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Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by stephenr on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:03AM (#15337864)
I assume they might want admin permissions honestly.

Having said that, prior to my recent visit (failing mbp fan) my trips had always been for failing/failed discrete graphics (about 5 trips on 2 different generations of 17" mbp) so a reinstall is inevitable because making macOS work properly after a mainboard replacemnt is more work than reinstalling from scratch

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Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by gunsandnachos on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:22PM (#15340724)
It so easy to get admin rights on a Mac anyway.

- Boot into single user mode...

# mount -uw /

# rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

# reboot

Reboot the machine and it walks you through a re-run of setting up the OS X set up assistant, which allows creation of an admin account.

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