Mac Profiles

[webtech21]

Hi All

 

I am in the process of setting up a new mac network (for the first time) and on testing the profiles I accidentally installed a restricted profile onto my local admin account. This has now locked me out of such settings as network & profiles.

 

Does anyone know of a way that I can remove this profile from my local admin account even though I can not access the profiles setting when logged in as the local admin.

 

I would very much appreciate anyones help on this.

 

Cheers

 

Josh

[Jwzg]

I think the terminal command is "/usr/bin/profiles -d" You will likely need a sudo on the front of that.

[webtech21]

Hi Jwzg

Thanks for your reply much appreciated.

 

I have done as you suggest and inputted into the terminal the following command "sudo /usr/bin/profiles -d"

It prompted to ask if I wanted to delete all provisioning profiles

I said yes

It appears to have completed however none of the features have become enabled again.

 

Have I done something wrong or missed off doing something else.

 

Your help would be much appreciated

 

Kind Regards

[TomCollins]

Stupid question, but did you restart afterwards?

[Jwzg]

x2 with Tom. Restart and you should be golden.

[webtech21]

Hi Both

 

I have done this command twice now and shutdown / restarted and still can not access the settings which were locked by the profile.

 

Any further thoughts ???

[Jwzg]

Do you have Parental Controls on?

[TomCollins]

Time Machine backup i'm guessing hasn't been created? Only other suggestion I have is to create a new user account through Terminal (if you can, should be able to with sudo) and transfer things over manually, How to Add a User From Terminal Mac OS X Screen Sharing | Chron.com is what I found.

 

EDIT: Parental controls might be a reason, I should really stop overlooking the simple answers. Didn't think you could set Parental Controls on an admin account though.

[Jwzg]

Time Machine backup i'm guessing hasn't been created? Only other suggestion I have is to create a new user account through Terminal (if you can, should be able to with sudo) and transfer things over manually, How to Add a User From Terminal Mac OS X Screen Sharing | Chron.com is what I found.

 

EDIT: Parental controls might be a reason, I should really stop overlooking the simple answers. Didn't think you could set Parental Controls on an admin account though.

 

Just guessing at this point, Tom, but I think you are right about PC on an admin acct.

[webtech21]

No parental controls set.

 

I have been able to create a new account I was just hoping I could fix this one.

 

I have installed osx server on the mac, I think I have removed it from any of the possible groups which could be affecting it, again restarted have rerun the command and restarted and no affect.

[webtech21]

Stupidly i haven't done a time machine on my mac

Should have done one before I started this in hinsight

[webtech21]

Thank you to both of you for your support, Looks like I may have to move everything to a new account. As have tried again with no joy