Comments on: OS X Password Recovery Discussion

By: phil

phil — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:57:40 +0000

cant recover passwd cant you help me

By: Jolene

Jolene — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:52:00 +0000

I’ve tried to restart and press the command-s button. (tap and hold) but the MacOS screen to enter the password still comes up.

I bought the Snow Leopard disc and restarted while holding down C and the same thing happens but the disc is automatically ejected.

I need some help and any advice i can get. Thanks in advance.

By: Minty

Minty — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:16:12 +0000

Today is 9/10/09 A full year after this article was written. MikeZ007’s root commands saved the day! I did not know this area existed in a mac, and now my G4 iBook 10.4.11 is back and running again. Party on MikeZ!!!

By: cenzo

cenzo — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:27:21 +0000

I have been instructed to copy and then wipe the hard drive if an imac, but i need an administrator account to do this, and it is password protected. And when i go into the bios, the text finishes and the computer freezes and the fan goes into max speed. idk what to do about this

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By: matt

matt — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:44:50 +0000

i got a mac from a friend who cant remember what the password is so i cant get online with my wireless card because it asks for the password to install the wireless can u help?

By: Karel

Karel — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:01:02 +0000

can u please help me i got a old mac off a friend and he cant remember the password so i cant update my mac or download stuff PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE……..

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:30:38 +0000

Elliot,
I bought a Macbook off of this guy and he scammed me into buying one where I can’t do anything unless I have the admin password. Do you think you can help me? I’ve tried your commands but they haven’t worked.
PLEASE HELP!

THANKS!

By: asghar shah

asghar shah — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:04:18 +0000

thank for your information there but whe i try enter this commant

rm /var/db/.applesetupdone

and press enter key

it just stops at this

override rw-r–r– root/ wheel for rm /var/db/.applesetupdone?

and then i reboot and noting happens same password on ibook please help

By: Gazcuex

Gazcuex — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:10:54 +0000

It WORK! .Just want to say thank you so much for shering this stuff. To Elliot for started it and you, Luti for made it so really easy.

Now I have a reason to not go sleep. Thanks