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Posted by: Lemonde - 05 February 2019 06:53:31
Resetting a Mac password. If you are in receipt of an Apple Mac from eBay and you cannot get administrative access then there are a couple of ways to proceed. If your Mac responds to Apple Button + R at boot-up (and by Boot-up we mean hold it down from the power-on sound until the progress bar/circle appears under the Apple logo) then you can simply select [i]Terminal[/i] from the utilities menu at the top of the screen and enter [i][b]resetpassword[/b][/i] to choose a new password as if you were changing it within OS X as normal. If the system does not respond to the commands then you need to use the terminal boot-up single sign-on to Linux method: [list=1][]Access the single-user mode by holding the [b]Command key[/b] and [b]S[/b] on startup. []Enter [b]“mount –uw /”[/b] then press return. []Enter [b]“launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.opendirectoryd.plist”[/b] then press return. []Enter [b]“passwd [username]”[/b] then press return. []Replace [username] with the name of your account. []Reset your password. []Type in [b]“reboot”[/b] then press return. []Log in with the new admin password.[/list] If you simply want to take the Mac back to defaults you can also re-run the initial set-up for first user wizard. This is done using the same first two steps as above but once in Terminal, [list=1][]Enter [b]fsck -fy[/b] []Enter [b]mount -uw /[/b] []Enter [b]rm /var/db/.applesetupdone[/b] []Enter [b]Reboot[/b][/list] Now the Mac will see that set-up is incomplete and perform the first time logon wizard for a new user.

Posted by: Lemonde - 05 February 2019 06:53:31

Resetting a Mac password. If you are in receipt of an Apple Mac from eBay and you cannot get administrative access then there are a couple of ways to proceed. If your Mac responds to Apple Button + R at boot-up (and by Boot-up we mean hold it down from the power-on sound until the progress bar/circle appears under the Apple logo) then you can simply select [i]Terminal[/i] from the utilities menu at the top of the screen and enter [i][b]resetpassword[/b][/i] to choose a new password as if you were changing it within OS X as normal. If the system does not respond to the commands then you need to use the terminal boot-up single sign-on to Linux method: [list=1][*]Access the single-user mode by holding the [b]Command key[/b] and [b]S[/b] on startup. [*]Enter [b]“mount –uw /”[/b] then press return. [*]Enter [b]“launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.opendirectoryd.plist”[/b] then press return. [*]Enter [b]“passwd [username]”[/b] then press return. [*]Replace [username] with the name of your account. [*]Reset your password. [*]Type in [b]“reboot”[/b] then press return. [*]Log in with the new admin password.[/list] If you simply want to take the Mac back to defaults you can also re-run the initial set-up for first user wizard. This is done using the same first two steps as above but once in Terminal, [list=1][*]Enter [b]fsck -fy[/b] [*]Enter [b]mount -uw /[/b] [*]Enter [b]rm /var/db/.applesetupdone[/b] [*]Enter [b]Reboot[/b][/list] Now the Mac will see that set-up is incomplete and perform the first time logon wizard for a new user.

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