Jan Hellar thanks for investigation, I currently don't know details about the admin rights, but since we're working on a very similar task, I'll try to investigate it.

Laura Fitzgerald did you try do oc cluster up with 3.9 client version binary? And what version of docker do you have?
I was not able to spin up openshift with oc v3.9 nor 3.11 and I'm using docker v17.09 on Mac.