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What's my admin password???
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<blockquote data-quote="blairtechguy" data-source="post: 1323622" data-attributes="member: 214970"><p>I keep this on hand in a doc, this will allow you to reset the admin password:</p><p></p><p>Boot into single user mode (press Command-S at power on) at the command prompt type in the following press enter after each line:</p><p></p><p>[CODE]Username$ fsck -fy</p><p>Username$ mount -uw /</p><p>Username$ launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist</p><p>Username$ dscl . -passwd /Users/username password[/CODE]</p><p>Replacing username with the targeted user and password with the desired password.</p><p></p><p>Reboot the machine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blairtechguy, post: 1323622, member: 214970"] I keep this on hand in a doc, this will allow you to reset the admin password: Boot into single user mode (press Command-S at power on) at the command prompt type in the following press enter after each line: [CODE]Username$ fsck -fy Username$ mount -uw / Username$ launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist Username$ dscl . -passwd /Users/username password[/CODE] Replacing username with the targeted user and password with the desired password. Reboot the machine. [/QUOTE]
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