[DM-MUG] Oops... lost password

[Matt W]

You can reinstall (Archive and Install or reformat the drive) but if 
you have any original Mac OS X CD, you can boot from the CD (using the 
"C" key upon restart with the disc in the drive) and after you get the 
install prompt, Go to the Install menu and choose reset password. This 
gives you the ability to change the password.

A great new feature of Panther (10.3) allows you to indicate a MASTER 
password that will log into ANY user. Great for administration and home 
users with multiple users who forget things.

For those of you who don't like this security hole, see this Apple 
KBase doc on how to password Open Firmware that will disallow certain 
operations by unwanted individuals, i.e. booting from CD.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106482

Matthew



On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 09:52 AM, Robert Craddick wrote:

> I have several computers in our facility and got one back with two 
> user names with passwords required to allow system access:
> one is a 'guest' user,  and I can access the computer with a password 
> for this unit, but do not have capacity to administer the computer 
> because the password is unknown. If an administrator username and 
> password are not known is there a way to just reload all software and 
> set the thing up again from scratch?
>
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