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Name: chocolate
Date: February 25, 2003 at 17:02:02 Pacific
Subject: Forgot password
OS: Mac OS X 10.0.4
CPU/Ram: N/A

Comment:

I have a user that forgot their login password on their os x machine. Is there any way around this??? Also they have OS 9 and X on the same partition, so if they boot into X we have to use a OS 9 disc to reset the start up control panel to boot from the OS 9 system folder. Is there any way to force it to boot from OS 9 on start up (holding down option dosen't work, you need seperate partitions for the systems).
thanks guys

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Response Number 1

Name: the pickle
Date: February 25, 2003 at 18:13:41 Pacific

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Boot from the OS X CD and use the menu option to reset the password.
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Response Number 2

Name: Jason
Date: February 26, 2003 at 04:46:32 Pacific

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Bring up the terminal window and "su" into root
passwd username
where username is the signin name of the user. It will ask you to enter the new password. Set it to something the person will remember. When they log in, tell them to change there password, FIRST THING!
This method works in Linux, and MANY of the commands are the same so hopefully this will work for you.

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Response Number 3

Name: ChrisP
Date: February 26, 2003 at 05:24:06 Pacific

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A follow-up to Jason's post. What he says is correct, except for one portion. At least on my system, sudo must be used instead of su.
----chri.s-

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Response Number 4

Name: the pickle
Date: February 26, 2003 at 07:25:56 Pacific

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Of course, if you've forgotten the root password, this can be a bit of a problem ;)
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