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Help. Password Hack Needed!!
Name: matt uk Date: July 9, 2002 at 12:43:03 Pacific
Comment:
Baically a friend of mine owns a company with 3 macs, he had a computer manager who left locking the macs with an admin password. Does anyone know how to hack the admin account or know where the password files are stored??
Name: the pickle Date: July 9, 2002 at 13:03:05 Pacific
Reply:
What Macs, and what OS?
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Response Number 2
Name: matt uk Date: July 9, 2002 at 13:08:56 Pacific
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OS 9
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Response Number 3
Name: the pickle Date: July 9, 2002 at 14:37:14 Pacific
Reply:
Boot from a system CD and toss out the Multiple Users preferences.
If he locked them using third-party software, there may or may not be anything you can do, but it would be best to contact the vendor of that software.
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