recovering lost passwords (mac os 10.3)

Steven C. Peterson scp at mainstream.net
Sun Dec 5 20:34:00 EST 2004


The NetInfo service trick did not work passwd just sits their for
about 45 seconds then drops back to shell

any other ideas

steven peterson

Bill McGonigle wrote:

>  On Dec 5, 2004, at 16:15, Steven C. Peterson wrote:
>
> > the machine does have an os on it (os 10.3) it has an admin
> > (root) password set and i do not have it, i need to rest it the
> > password file is not in the normal linux/uninx/bsd place and the
> > passwd command does not work proporly in single user mode
> > (command -s )
>
>
>  Ah, no CD's - I thought you meant no hard disks.
>
>  Did you make sure NetInfo was running before changing the password?
>  That's most likely where the password is stored. e.g.:
>
>  boot single user mount -uw / SystemStarter start NetInfo passwd
>  root
>
>  SystemStarter should work out whatever dependencies NetInfo needs
>  to start for you.
>
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