Help Resetting Administrator Password 10.3.7

[dasterndastern]

Hi all:

So after a few years of happily using an old Powermac G4, I just went to install a new program, and found my access blocked by an administrator password. Bought the computer used, no disks available - when I try and boot into single user mode it's unavailable... apparently this was used at a university, they installed some sort of protection on it, at the very end of a long screen of text I get the following prompt (this seems to me the relevant bit of info):

Singleuser boot — fsck not done
Root device is mounted read-only
If you want to make modifications to files,
run ‘/sbin/fsck -y’ first and then ‘/sbin/mount -uw/'

I'm comfortable fooling around at the most basic level with terminal commands, and this seems like a relatively straightforward procedure... but before I run the two suggested commands, want to make sure I'm interpreting those instructions correctly.

Any help greatly appreciated - thanks!

 

[voca]

At startup

hold COMMAND + S

Once loaded:

/sbin/mount -uw/ "Press RETURN"
rm/var/db/.AppleSetupDone "Press RETURN"
reboot "Press RETURN

 

[dasterndastern]

Admin Help

Thanks, voca - will try it out!

- Dave

 

[dasterndastern]

Still no progress...

... tried the "/sbin/mount -uw/" command...

machine returned:

mount: illegal option -- /
usage: mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t ufs | external_type] special node
mount [-adfruvw] [-t ufs | external_type}
mount [-dfruvw] special | node
localhose:/root#


Any further thoughts greatly appreciated...

- Dave

 

[gsahli]

voca gave you typos in every command line.
/sbin/mount -uw / (& Return to execute — spaces are important here)
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone (again - spaces matter)
reboot

 

[dasterndastern]

Thanks, gsahli - all good now!!!