Comments on: Mac OS X recover lost root password

By: Noxious_sully_dolor

Noxious_sully_dolor — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:54:36 +0000

IT WORKED
U THE MAN

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:57:14 +0000

Worked like a charm! Thanks!

By: williamsr

williamsr — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:37:07 +0000

i have a imac with 10.5.8. i just bought an old imac g3 with 10.3. i dont have the passwords for the g3. i have taken the hard drive out and connected it to my new imac. but i still can not change the passwords on the hard drive. is there a way to do this.

By: drewgost

drewgost — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:36:55 +0000

After you type the above commands and reboot I notice that the white screen shows up for 30 seconds then boots into original user. I never see the prompt I just type the commands but never see any typing but it does reboot when i hit enter I am using an external screen.

Am I supposed to enter a password when the white terminal screen shows up?

Please help

By: grantrob

grantrob — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:09:18 +0000

I recently bought an iMac G3. Ido not know the password. I am using a windows keyboard. When I boot m mac the windows + s has no effect! If you can please help me that would be great.

By: George

George — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:04:58 +0000

I need to reset my administrator password on my mac. I have followed instructions according to the apple website but it doesn't work. When I attempt to open the install disc on the computer it asks me for the password. Kinda defeats the purpose, I don't know the password. Is there anyway around this or am out of luck.

Please help

By: emilymcg

emilymcg — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:09:25 +0000

Thank You!!! You are our hero! This saved us such headaches! Our computer will not be a paperweight! Good luck to everyone!

By: lewisj

lewisj — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:21:07 +0000

Hi everyone,

I tried to reset password via....

1. boot computer and hold the "apple" key and the "s" key.
2. wait for terminal show
3. release keys
4. type without the quotes: "/sbin/mount -uaw"
5. press enter
6. type without the quotes: "rm /var/db/.applesetupdone
7. press enter
8. type without the quotes: "reboot"
9. press enter

But now it just comes up with a select language page and when I choose english it loads up the System Administrator account. I can not log in as anyone else even if I create new users. In this state I try to log out, shut down etc, but nothing happens. Does anyone know what has happened here. Help is so so appreciated.

By: carlos

carlos — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:27:10 +0000

where do i type that? whats the sudo comand?

By: SK

SK — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:35:11 +0000

I want to reset password on my mac. Today morning it asked me to login with user name and password, it never asked me admin password. I entered the correct password but it is not working. I tried to reset the password and hint using OS X disk, but it still not accepting my new password. I can see the password hint changed, but whenever I try to do some administrative task, it will ask me admin password and reject it. Please help me to solve this issue. I can login to my account using OS X disk but when I will enter my admin password to do some administrative task it is rejecting my password.