
On the other hand, you might not even be looking to promote someone perhaps you will want to demote an account because someone’s abusing their powers and changing settings or deleting stuff from the Mac when they shouldn’t be. This will give them the same access rights to the Mac as you would have and can make it so the both of you can better manage your children’s time on the computer. Likewise, even if you’re not doing this for a business setting, you might want to do this if you’re a parent and are trying to promote the rights of another user account for your significant other. If you’re managing a network of computers for a school or institution, then it may be required to give teachers or other employees administrator access to a Mac so they have the same privileges you do to get things done when you’re not on your shift. Why to promote or demote Mac user accounts In this tutorial, we’ll show you how you can upgrade a user account’s privileges to administrator rights, and we’ll also go through the steps to strip an account of its administrator rights.


In some rare scenarios, you as the computer administrator may want to actually promote an existing basic OS X user account to an administrator account, or vice-versa.
