Reading Macintosh

Hello, I need help resetting my login password on my macintosh powerbook G3. My kid changed it on me and now I'm locked out.
What are my options? Please explain in detail, I'm no computer whiz...

Thanks.

Umm well this is a very interesting situation. Now I take it you are on some type of OSX and talking about users. I hope there is more than one user. If there is I hope they are admin. If they are admin I think (not totally sure) that you can change the passwords of the other users from their System Prefs. If not then I am not sure what you can do. I would say you would have to re install the OS or something. Unless you want someone to hack it. But I can't do that so don't ask me.

You're gonna have to do a little hacking, but if you print this out and follow it precisely you should be fine:

Hold down ctrl-s while booting
type "mount -uw /" <return> at the command prompt to mount the drive with both read and write access
type "SystemStarter" <return>
type "passwd <user>" <return>
enter the new password twice (e.g. type it and hit return).
Hit ctrl+d or type "logout" <return>

Should be fine. The GUI will load, and you can use your new password.

What this does is log you into single user mode, which is a failsafe mode designed to accomodate situations just like yours.

Ewige Blumenkraft!

This post was edited by mclaincausey on Jun 19, 2004.