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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hello guy’s!,i have a power mac g4 i do not know any thing about it!i don’t know what version its running so i dont know where to start .it will boot up to a user box with the user’s name at the top of the box .but i dont know the password or what name they used to log in .i can use the c command to get in the single user thing and do the when i use the 3) mount -uw / illegal option –/
usage:mount {dfrum}and alot of stuff comes up. then when i run systemstater it does it thing and comes to startup complete .when i type the passwd it says changing password for root new password retype new password then it goes back to sh-2.05a#
ok i have a problem after i type /sbin/mount -uw / it says illegal option why !?? i have G4 mac os x and it also says usage
hi ive got an imac os 9, no password or boot disk. is there a way to override the password on it?
I FORGOTTEN MY MASTER PASSWORD AND MY LOGIN PASSWD I DID TRY ONE OF THE SOLUTIONS IT CREATED A NEW ACCOUNT I SIMPLY REMOVED THE OLD ONE BUT I NEED TO FIND THE MASTER PASSWD.
JGARNER8114@HUGHES.NET
I tried to restar using the command-s and it restarts as normal. I have an ibook with mac os 9.2 that was given to me, and I can’t do anything with it because I can’t change the password and I don’t have the disk. Can you help me please?