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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- Entering a Password Multiple Times for Security
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I got a PowerBook G4 from a friend. I don’t know the Administrator password, but at boot the login screen is skipped. I try a logoff but i need to restart to login (automatically). I got the laptop with friend’s user name, and i want to change this. I don’t want to try super-tricks on my laptop, because i don’t have at least a Mac OS X Setup CD. Some other ideas?
hi my mac book is 10.4.7 and i’ve forgotten my password, i’v tried all the methods but there nt working.
can someone plz help me
thnx
Az
Other questions:
- If you use the rm … applesetupdone method, could you just rename the file, instead of deleting it? I’m thinking you could just rename again, if anything should go wrong. Also, any way to just turn off networking altogether (I’m thinking that would also stop the LDAP attempts). In general, how do you stop/start services?
1. I’m trying this method on a 10.3.9 system, which
I got from a friend, who doesn’t know the root pw
OR the root ID
- start in Single-user mode w/Cmd-S on startup
- /sbin/fsck -y (seems to work fine)
- /sbin/mount -uw / (also seems to work fine)
- /sin/SystemStarter (not so good)
When I run the “SystemStarter” command, it just
loops endlessly with “Waiting for LDAP”.
Control-C temporarily stops it, but then the
“Waiting for LDAP message starts up again.
Cold boot seems like the only way out.
- niutil -list . /users
I get nothing until I press ctl-c (then again,
SystemStarter has not completed properly at this
point, so who knows)
4. I’m not a UNIX or Mac guy, but I understand about command line syntax & command prompts, etc., so I don’t think it’s a matter of “you left a space out here”, etc.
I think if there’s an option to turn off LDAP, I could probably be OK. Any ideas?
I don’t want to do the rm … Applesetupdone method, unless
it’s 1000% necessary.
thankyou!!! worked like a trea!
eveything that was on there was deleted tho!?
thats cool tho!
didnt want it anyways
cheers heaps!