After updating from Monterey to Ventura (M1 chip), a guest user account is now showing as the only login option with a password that I do not know – there is no option to switch user (although in recovery mode my user profile is still there). I’ve tried reinstalling Ventura which didn’t work. Upon my 10th time of going into recovery mode I was prompted to reinstall Monterey – when selecting this the macbook told me that I cannot downgrade the software on the disk. As there is no Time Machine backup, my only option now it seems is to somehow disable the guest user from the terminal. I’ve googled around for how to do this and have found nothing helpful. If possible, can someone here tell me exactly what needs to be I texted in the terminal (using -bash) to disable the guest user or better yet force the computer to start in my admin profile?

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