Reseting the User Password

[cesium]

My sister has recently passed and I aquired her old Laptop. I don't know much about the laptop other that thats its a G4 and running OSX. I've been looking around and can't seem to find anyway to login to the laptop since I dont know her password. Does anyone here have any ideas??

 

[mad jew]

I'm sorry to hear that. The laptop would have come with some install discs. There is a Password Manager Utility on one of these discs that will let you reset the password. Unless you need something on the computer, it might be easier to do a complete reformat and reinstall.

 

[cesium]

Unfortunatly I don't have the discs 😕 . I read on some other forum posts about booting into single user mode, and how somewhere in there you can change the password but really dont know how to do that.

 

[mad jew]

Can you borrow someone else's discs for a moment?

 

[cesium]

Will any OSX discs work is are they specific to the model/OS version?

 

[mad jew]

Some will work. All retail versions bought after this machine's build date will work. Bundled discs from similar machines should also work.

 

[cesium]

I called around to my friends to try and find a CD but unfortunately no one had one. Is there any way to reset the password without the discs?