Mac OS 9, please type in your password

[mectojic]

I'm trying to install some old software from a CD in Mac OS 9.2.2. When I open the installer, it says "please type in your password". Well, I never set up a password. Pressing enter, or anything, does not work. I then tried creating a password through multiple users, but even still it did not work.

Is there some default password that you're meant to type in when this prompt is given?

 

[hopfenholz]

What's the software?

 

[mectojic]

Old webcam.

 

[AphoticD]

Old webcam.

Maybe try setting a password from the File Sharing Control Panel?

 

[Amethyst1]

Old webcam.

Is it possible the software itself (or its installer) is password-protected? Wouldn't make a lot of sense, but...

 

[James Gryphon]

I suspect they're actually looking for a serial number or registration code. The nomenclature here is unusual, but that kind of copy-protection wasn't.

 

[mectojic]

Solved. What a nightmare.

I had the whole product, with original box and CD and everything, and nowhere at all was the password provided. I tried the passwords I set in OS 9, tried serial number, product name, computer name, everything. Nothing worked.

I finally found my answer by going to the FAQs page of the long-defunct iREZ website through the Internet Archive, specifically to the year 2003, where someone asked the same question.
The password, for some arbitrary reason, was "2020". No relation to the rise of webcams in the year 2020, though quite a coincidence.

Anyway, the original Mac OS 9 driver is the ONLY way to get a Kritter USB 1.2 webcam to work for Mac; @Dronecatcher macam and IOXwebcam explicitly only worked in OS X with the Kritter 1.0, not the 1.1 or 1.2, but thanks for the tip anyway.

Here's the little Kritter, anyway:

 

[Amethyst1]

Here's the little Kritter, anyway:

Well, at least it looks cool and can turn head(s)