generik said:I have been trying to get mine reset, but I can't seem to do that.
Is the password stored in a file or something? At least then I can probably just delete it and get OSX to accept a new password.
You could just have searched the forums... this has been answered LOTS of times...generik said:I have been trying to get mine reset, but I can't seem to do that.
Is the password stored in a file or something? At least then I can probably just delete it and get OSX to accept a new password.
Nobody answered the second part of the original poster's question: is the password stored in a text file somewhere? No doubt it's encrypted therein, but would deleting it prompt for a new password? (Never mind about the permissions & ownership of such a file for now.) Or maybe doing so would put one up the creek without a paddle?
Nobody answered the second part of the original poster's question: is the password stored in a text file somewhere? No doubt it's encrypted therein, but would deleting it prompt for a new password? (Never mind about the permissions & ownership of such a file for now.) Or maybe doing so would put one up the creek without a paddle?
Nobody answered the second part of the original poster's question: is the password stored in a text file somewhere? No doubt it's encrypted therein, but would deleting it prompt for a new password? (Never mind about the permissions & ownership of such a file for now.) Or maybe doing so would put one up the creek without a paddle?
They're not answering because the thread is 5 years old and the OP was banned from this site 3 1/2 years ago. Please check dates of the last post in a thread.
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I couldn't come up with a tune right now because my wife is playing "More Bounce To The Ounce" by Zapp.I was singing it as "if you're happy and you know it clap your hands". Is that right?
to enter a new login password if, e.g., one has lost the install disc or the optical drive is inoperative?):
It would have to be stored somewhere (otherwise OS X couldn't know the right password), but I'm sure it is well hidden in one of those folders only your Mac can access.
So have I got this right?
I can just pop in the install disc and gain access to any OS X system?!
What if it is filevault protected?
If you have the computer, all you have to do is boot up into single user mode and delete the "AppleSetupDone" file.
This tells the computer to redo the first startup sequence asking for the setup and administrator password.
Schmye Bubbula tells you how to do this, really easy way to kill off the administrator password and gain entry to a machine.
Right, but this wouldn't leave my homefolder exposed if it is encrypted with filevault?
What about keychains?
I'm pretty sure it's not in one of the keychains and it's possible they only save the master filevault password in each encrypted user sparsebundle file.
Basically, you can only mount a user's encrypted volume with their password or the master filevault password
But in the end, if you're hoping to open a filevault encrypted file, you need the user's password or the master filevault password. If there's some backdoor or way to reset the master filevault password without the master filevault password (which I hope they aren't stupid enough to have done), then Apple's got a HUGE security problem.
Right, but say I have an .sparsebundle outside the home folder and have the password in my keychain, could the password get exposed that way?
So basically I'm asking the same thing again, if someone makes a new admin password, does that open up my keychain to them?