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I have never used a Mac in my life and this was the first time I was supposed to use it but the problem was the admin/had forgotten password. It was Mac OSx version 10.3.9. I tried fsk commads etc but didnt’ work but I came across a post which said /var/db/.AppleSetupDone - This file, simply by existing, indicates that the computer has had basic setup performed. If you delete this file, the Setup Assistant will run on the next reboot, allowing you to create a new local admin setup it will setup again.
and I just did rmdir the previous. N.B Possible loss of data.
Rosa Absatz’s recipe two messages up works. Thanks!
I just talked my mother through changing her iMac G5 password over the phone.
The only problem was explaining to her how to “Hit Command-S at boot” , which took about 45 minutes.
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I tried this on a G5 running 10.4.6 and now it does not get past the blue boot screen with the bar at the bottom. Help!
Thank you, Elliot! Your recipe still works almost unchanged in Mac OS X Intel
on my new MacBook Pro!
Now MacOS X even gives you some clues when booted to single-user mode.
I.e.:
0) Restart…
1) Hit Command-S at boot.
2) “sh /etc/rc” — this command is suggested by MacOS X itself to start important system services but stay in single-user mode.
3) “niutil -list . /users” — find out my user’s name if I was ignorant not to see it before the reboot.
4) “passwd my_name”.
5) “reboot”.
Here we are!
Hi,
Mir you didn’t typed the / in front of : sbin/mount -uw / and ther needs to be a space between the last 2 characters.
So the right way is : /sbin/mount -uw /
Ravens_Stone : The way you tried never worked for me on that version or earlyer versions, did you do what Luti descriped ?. This one works also on Intel Macs.