Manually add admin with external drive

[one1]

Why is that thumbnail upside down..... lol. Anyway.......

I cloned a drive and when i tried to boot it, it wants a password to login. I don’t use a password so i just hit enter which isn’t an issue with the original drive, but the cloned one seems to have a permissions issue. This happened to another drive i cloned once and i manually added an admin while I had the drive in an external caddy, but NOT booted up. I was just exploring the drive. That was a few year ago and i have forgotten how I did it. I spent a lot of time cloning my drive and would like to work on permissions later, but get the computer running for now With a clean admin so i can use it without formatting everything I’ve done. I remember this issue i had before with a blank password. If i had put a password before doing this it would have worked fine. Hindsight.

TLDR; drive in external caddy, not booted just exploring. How to manually add admin account?

 

[barbu]

Try this

 

[one1]

Thanks, that would work, but this is somewhere in the system files. It boots to log in, but doesn’t accept just hitting enter. I fought this a few years ago with the same setup. It wants a password where I don’t have one. On the original drive something has told it that the enter key is acceptable. On the cloned drive it doesn’t have the reference. After days of fighting it i created another admin and eventually gave up. Now I don’t remember the process to do that. This time I’m going to keep trying, but i want the computer up and running until then.