My dad has a powermac G4 thats been sitting in the corner of his office for years because the guy that worked with it before left under something of a cloud and never told anybody the password. How can my dad get around not knowing the password? Can he just reinstall OSX?
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Passworded Powermac G4....
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No problem with gaining access.
Just follow the steps at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh655.html
Basically just boot from the OS X disk and follow the steps at the above link.
Just follow the steps at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh655.html
Basically just boot from the OS X disk and follow the steps at the above link.
I second what CanadaRAM said. If you don't need data on it you could easily wipe it and reinstall OSX
You could try doing it in Single User Mode:
(Re)boot while pressing <COMMAND> <S>.
Type "mount -uw /" <ENTER>
Type "sh /etc/rc" <ENTER>
Type "passwd root" <ENTER>
Type and retype a <password of choice>
Type "reboot"
At the login window, log in as "root" / "<your password of choice>"
Goto System prefs, and reset th epassword of the normal admin account.
(Re)boot while pressing <COMMAND> <S>.
Type "mount -uw /" <ENTER>
Type "sh /etc/rc" <ENTER>
Type "passwd root" <ENTER>
Type and retype a <password of choice>
Type "reboot"
At the login window, log in as "root" / "<your password of choice>"
Goto System prefs, and reset th epassword of the normal admin account.
By the looks of the commands I'm certain it only changes the user password (in this case root) and doesn't do anything else.
