I recently ran into a situation where I had a mac, but not the memory for the username/password, or install disks to reset the admin. Luckily, with a little searching around, I found a solution from the good people at the “Apple Blog”. So, get out that dusty mac, and ‘haccess’ it.
To reset your OS X password without an OS X CD you need to enter the terminal and create a new admin account:
- Reboot
- Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime.
- When you get text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting return after each line):
- mount -uw /
- rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
- shutdown -h now/
After rebooting you should have a brand new admin account. When you login as the new admin you can simply delete the old one and you’re good to go again!
Big thanks to the hip cats at the Apple Blog. See the original post for a bit more information.
