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No this will only create a new administrator account for you, after you booted up you just remove the old admin user or copy the data to your account..
Greets Mike007.
@ Mike007 Does that remove all the old information on your mac? ie Pictures, data, etc??
If you have a username like John Doe, make sure you put an underscore between the two words. So it would be like this:
passwd John_Doe
This worked for me.
However, after that, when I entered the password two times, I get the greeting: ‘Sorry’.
I reset the root password but that did not seem to change anything, I still have to log in as my user and it will not let me.
I did what Freethinker did on Tiger and it worked. When you boot up in single user, the banner even says that running
sh /etc/rc
will finish booting, but leave you in single user mode.
This one work for me
http://www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2006/02/01/os-x-password-recovery-discussion/#comment-157747
Just a simple matter of following the instructions on screen.
0) Restart…
1) Hit Command-S at boot
2) fsck -fy
3) mount -uw /
4) sh /etc/rc (wait a few seconds, hit enter if no prompt)
5) passwd root
6) reboot