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John Dickmann - Aug 20, 2005 - 2:00 pm

I seem to have lost admin privileges. I cannot install new programs or update my Virex files. Virex gives me a message that there is not enough disk space. installing programs tell me that I need admin privileges.

john

bobw - Aug 20, 2005 - 2:10 pm

Hi John

The best thing you can do is uninstall Virex. Apple stopped making it available because of problems it causes in OS X. Here's a page for uninstalling;

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301291

There are NO viruses for an OS X system.

Uninstall it, restart then Repair Permissions and see how things are.
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Bobw - Macosx.com Tech Support

John Dickmann - Aug 20, 2005 - 2:57 pm

Bob,

Thanks for the tip about Virex. Uninstalled it and repaired permissions. No joy. I also trie to update theMac security update 2005-007 and got the message:

"Security Update 2005-007 could not be verified and expanded correctly. Make sure you have permission to write to /private/tmp/503/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate, then try again.

I found that file and verified that I have read/write permissions on it.

john

bobw - Aug 20, 2005 - 3:01 pm

John

Open the Account PreferencePane and see if your account is an Admin account. If not, change it to Admin.

Also, you mentioned not enough disk space. You need to keep a minimum of 15% free space on a hard drive, otherwise take a chance of data couption, data loss and drive failure.
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Bobw - Macosx.com Tech Support

John Dickmann - Aug 20, 2005 - 4:13 pm

Bob,

thanks. My disk is less than 50% full. I think I have a Kerberos problem. My kerberos doesn't recognized me as an active user, and I can't log in using Kerberos.

Also, in account preferences, My account is an Admin account.

thanks,
john