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.
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password recovery.
i have a imac os X 10.4.10, i followed your instructions till i got to part three. could not create ipc bootstrap port:com.apple.systemstarter
could you please help me resolve this problem as you are a superstar,
is it because hve the newer version of osX 10.4.10??
please send me the instructions of hoe to resolve the problem.
p.s do i need a tiger dvd
thanks joe
Here is probably a repetitive question, I bought a used apple powerbook G3 with 10.3.9 software. The guy gave me what he thought was the administrative password, well it does not work.
I am so confused because I am a PC person, I have looked over all of the blogs and typed in everything I saw, when you are typing this commands in are they supposed to be in a straight line as such:
Do I type it like thisz/
/sbin/fsck -y,then hit enter?
Or do I do it this way?
/sbin/fsck -y/sbin/mount -uw/sbin/SystemStarter etc. etc etc.
it does not give me any option to reset password
I don’t want to pay 50.00 to have it done if I can do it another way
Oh yeah i don’t have the software for it either
I tried recovering also using this method, because i wanted to erase a user account and was not able to login anymore.
Did the proceadure of applesetupdone, but macbook hangs after filling all forms, i get a white screen with grey line on middle, and all i can do is hit return and go back to forms.
Anyone knows how to pass this?
thanks
Please Help!!!
I inherrited my uncles macbook when he passed. I went to boot it up and I dont know his username or password nor can I find any of the paperwork or restore disk. Is there any way around this username and password issue or did I get stuck with a pretty white paperweight?
Please Help!!!
i have a BookG4 and everything works fine until i put SystemStarter it gets like freeze what can i do somebody help me please jose_nahun21@hotmail.com
/sbin/fsck -y
/sbin/mount -uw /
/usr/libexec/register_mach_bootstrap_servers /etc/mach_init.d
cd /var/db/netinfo
netinfod -s local
SystemStarter
passwd -i file -l /etc/master.passwd root
reboot