Comments on: Mac OS X Password Recovery

By: Hardware Security and the New Information Age < David Cheeseman’s Blog?

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:07:42 +0000

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Julioams Weblog Â» Recuperar ContraseÃ±a de Mac OS X — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:50:25 +0000

[...] busco en Google “Password Mac OS X” y el tercer resultado me lleva a la bitÃ¡cora de Elliot Lee en donde encontrÃ© las instrucciones para cambiar la contraseÃ±a del usuario o la del [...]

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Technogab | Technology News Podcast with a touch of Rock — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:29:18 +0000

[...] Mac OS X Password Recovery Although there’s no real way to recover a lost root password, you can change the root password even if you do not know the current one. You must have physical access to the machine in order to accomplish this task. [...]

By: Mac Password Hacking « A Whole Lot of Nothing

Mac Password Hacking « A Whole Lot of Nothing — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:41:01 +0000

[...] I did some searching on Google and found a page that discusses how to hack passwords on a Mac. Various methods suggested on several pages of comments to that page had failed. Figuring I had nothing to lose I decided to try mixing the methods I had found until I found one that worked. I figured if I hosed the machine at this point it wouldn’t be a big deal. The machine was useless to me in it’s current state anyway so I would have had no qualms about clearing the hard drive and starting from scratch. The only reason I was still going at it was for the challenge. So off I went. [...]

By: Elliot Lee » OS X Password Recovery Discussion

Elliot Lee » OS X Password Recovery Discussion — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:29:26 +0000

[...] My post on Mac OS X Password Recovery that I made almost a year ago continues to get comments today. It’s a fairly common issue. Since it has reached 126 comments (and the page is getting long), I’ve decided to close comments. You can continue discussion by leaving a comment here. No Votes Yet – Vote Now! [...]

By: JD

JD — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:38:41 +0000

I have a G4 Mac OS-X 10.3.9 and i'm having problems resetting my root password, i have gotten as far as "/usr/libexec/register_mach_bootstrap_server/etc/mach_init.d" but the reply is -sh:"/usr/libexec/register_mach_bootstrap_server/etc/mach_init.d is not a directory any suggestions pls!! Comments are now closed. Continue discussion here.

By: macuser

macuser — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:11:04 +0000

There is no Command-S “key”.

There is a Command key (the cloverleaf next to the spacebar) and there is an “S” key.

Hold the two keys down together—that’s what the hyphen between them means, that they are held down at the same time just like when you use Command-X to cut and Command-V to paste when you’re in a word processor.

And to Anna, message #103, DON’T go picking out names from a list and trying to change their passwords. Many of these are system things you shouldn’t touch. You can REALLY screw things up in root mode in UNIX, so don’t mess with anything or randomly try stuff without reading about it and understanding it first.

If you want to know which users are listed on the system with accounts, then look at the Users folder. Usually there’s only one person if it’s a single user machine. It gives you the system “short name” for the user. For example, if you logged in normally as Jane Doe the short name is probably “janedoe” in the Users directory.

By: focus

focus — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:46:40 +0000

how do i know what modal my ibook is

By: BSB

BSB — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:01:55 +0000

Dear moderator, please ignore the previous post, I’ve just noticed on a further check that the command is “passwd” not “passwrd” !

By: BSB

BSB — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:57:29 +0000

I have a PowerBook G4 (that is now just over 1 year old and has not yet been used due to password problems and the installation DVD corrupted on “Password Manager” !

I have OS 10.3.3 installed with a French AZERTY keyboard (running in root mode in US configuration. I have followed the various different advices above. I get as far as “Startup complete” after typing “SystemStarter”.
I have then typed “passwrd root” and get the message “-sh: passwrd: command not found”
I then tried the extended “passwrd -i …. routine and got the same message.

Any more ideas ? (I would like to use my Mac before it becomes a museum piece rather than my PC !