Supper User Mode access needed

[aethier]

hello, i am trying to get a real account on the emacs at my college (admin account, not the crappy no access 'student account") however some of the steps needed to accomplish my mission may not be achieved without accessing the supper user mode. however when i hold apple+s at startup it just bypasses and goes automatically to the start up screen. i cannot boot to my ext harddrive either as when i hold down the option key at startup there is a big lock with a password prompt :(

anyone can help?

aethier

[edesignuk]

anyone can help?
Yeah right, someone's gonna help you hack your school network. LOL :rolleyes:

[aethier]

Yeah right, someone's gonna help you hack your school network. LOL :rolleyes:

my school, me who would pay the price.

anyways i am sure the good folks at macintosh underground will be a little more helpful.

anyways i will keep a progress report for those who are interested and aren't little perfect law abiding citizens.

aethier

[edesignuk]

anyways i am sure the good folks at macintosh underground will be a little more helpful.I'm sure they will be.
anyways i will keep a progress report for those who are interested and aren't little perfect law abiding citizens. Becasue I suggested that people might not want to help you hack your school I'm a little goody goody? ok....

[aethier]

I'm sure they will be.
Becasue I suggested that people might not want to help you hack your school I'm a little goody goody? ok....

it sounded as though you were saying that everyone is above doing rebelious activities.

anyways i don't see why some people wouldn/'t want to help, it is a nice change from all the noobs who as such life changing choices as whether to buy a powerbook or ibook. which wouldn't be annoying if they didn't apear about 4 times or more a week

aethier

[JeDiBoYTJ]

Ive done my share of hackin' eMacs at my old high school. I worked in the TV Production Lab, and they gave us brand new 1ghz eMacs... but of course, they were all locked, and the only things you could do were run FCP and iMovie.... I hate being restricted, so I took an OSX Install CD, booted from the CD, when it loaded, I went up to the Apple menu, and selected "Reset Password", and bam, we had full access.... muhahahaha *cough*

so anyway, yeah, just do that, and you can make your own account... boot from your external... and have fun :-P

[abhishekit]

Well if you can not login the single user mode, it means that your administrator has enabled open firmware password. It prevents booting up from external hard drive(or any other volume except the starting disk specified), and supresses single user mode.
I think the only way you can reset it is to change the amount of RAM and reboot.

[aethier]

Ive done my share of hackin' eMacs at my old high school. I worked in the TV Production Lab, and they gave us brand new 1ghz eMacs... but of course, they were all locked, and the only things you could do were run FCP and iMovie.... I hate being restricted, so I took an OSX Install CD, booted from the CD, when it loaded, I went up to the Apple menu, and selected "Reset Password", and bam, we had full access.... muhahahaha *cough*

so anyway, yeah, just do that, and you can make your own account... boot from your external... and have fun :-P

i tried that before opening this thread...

pressing "c" is bypassed

you cannot do anything!!!!!!!!! :eek: