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<blockquote data-quote="hotlips69" data-source="post: 1273608" data-attributes="member: 205537"><p>1) I've tried the previous suggestion without success as it says "no available users" when I select Macintosh HD as the correct drive when asked where the user account is.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080414140636495" target="_blank">10.5: Reset a user's password in single user mode - Mac OS X Hints</a></p><p>also doesn't work as I don't know the correct logon name and everything I guessed wasn't recognised.</p><p></p><p>I've now setup a root account so I can actually get into the system and see the files etc...</p><p></p><p>When I go into the "Users" folder, there is "jaqui" & "Shared" listed.</p><p>Jaqui is the name of the lady who owns the laptop and if I click on her name, I can then see her Desktop contents, Documents, Music etc.. which is all good.</p><p></p><p>I'm now stumped, as "jaqui" doesn't work as a valid logon name when I tried to change the password on the above link.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>2) I found & tried the following:</p><p>fsck -yf </p><p></p><p>mount -uw /</p><p></p><p>launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist </p><p></p><p>launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServicesLocal.plist </p><p></p><p>passwd #this will change root’s password, you will be prompted to enter it twice</p><p></p><p>dscl</p><p></p><p>list Local/Default/Users</p><p></p><p>I then get a long list of system-type names, the majority start with "-" except for 3 names at the bottom of the list:</p><p>daemon</p><p>nobody</p><p>root</p><p></p><p>no sign of jaqui as I would have hoped and no clue who "nobody" or "daemon" are!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hotlips69, post: 1273608, member: 205537"] 1) I've tried the previous suggestion without success as it says "no available users" when I select Macintosh HD as the correct drive when asked where the user account is. [url=http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080414140636495]10.5: Reset a user's password in single user mode - Mac OS X Hints[/url] also doesn't work as I don't know the correct logon name and everything I guessed wasn't recognised. I've now setup a root account so I can actually get into the system and see the files etc... When I go into the "Users" folder, there is "jaqui" & "Shared" listed. Jaqui is the name of the lady who owns the laptop and if I click on her name, I can then see her Desktop contents, Documents, Music etc.. which is all good. I'm now stumped, as "jaqui" doesn't work as a valid logon name when I tried to change the password on the above link. 2) I found & tried the following: fsck -yf mount -uw / launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServicesLocal.plist passwd #this will change root’s password, you will be prompted to enter it twice dscl list Local/Default/Users I then get a long list of system-type names, the majority start with "-" except for 3 names at the bottom of the list: daemon nobody root no sign of jaqui as I would have hoped and no clue who "nobody" or "daemon" are! [/QUOTE]
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