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Feb 26, 2013 1:47 AM in response to markman523by Klaus1,Call him and ask him, as you should have done at the time you bought it - as well as obtaining the original install disks.
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Feb 26, 2013 9:29 AM in response to markman523by edex67,If he won't provide the disks (as many do not) then try booting into Single User Mode by holding down Cmd-S. Then type:
- fsck -fy
- mount -uw /
At this point you can go 2 ways:
- Changing the password of the current user - type passwd <username> where username is the short name of the user you want to change.
- Starting the setup wizard - do a rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone. This will start initial setup.
Then, you can type shutdown -h now to turn off the Mac.
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Feb 26, 2013 10:42 AM in response to edex67by rccharles,Have you tried point one? You need to be running full Unix to do passwd.
->Start up some utility processes that are needed.
sh /etc/rc
->You will probably need to press the return key once the system stops typing.
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Feb 26, 2013 2:00 PM in response to rccharlesby edex67,Seemed to work fine for:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/25/change-admin-password-mac/
Without doing the sh /etc/rc. It seems to no longer be needed (don't quote me though, I usually use the method #2 or remove the NetInfo database as well).
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Feb 26, 2013 6:55 PM in response to edex67by rccharles,I haven't tried it either in years. How passwords are save changed in 10.5 ( or was it 10.6 .) Apple got ride of the netinfo database.
Robert
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Feb 27, 2013 11:32 AM in response to rccharlesby rccharles,I booted my Tiger 10.4.11 in single user mode via holding down the command + s when powering on.
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
passwd user-name
# returned without asking for new password.
# ( did not work )
# ->Start up some utility processes that are needed.
sh /etc/rc
passwd user-name
# asked for new password.
# (worked).
So, the working of passwd has changed over time.
Robert