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<blockquote data-quote="dejavu" data-source="post: 1153948" data-attributes="member: 182475"><p>kan sum one give give me help wed this . i have done al this to reset a PowerMac g4 but this is not working for me , </p><p></p><p></p><p>Reboot the machine into single user mode (CMD+S on boot)</p><p>Mount the root file system as read/write (mount -uw /)</p><p>Edit the SUDOERS file (visudo)</p><p>Change all occurences of "(ALL) ALL" to "NOPASSWD: ALL" (Note: You'll need to know your way around the text editor vi -- check out the vi tutorial in MacOS X Command Line 101 for more. -TMO)</p><p>Save the SUDOERS file and reboot (ESC-w, ESC-q, 'reboot')</p><p>Open a terminal and execute the command 'sudo passwd root'</p><p></p><p><img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Straight-Faced.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":|" title="Straight Faced :|" data-shortname=":|" /> can i do ? tanks<img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Straight-Faced.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":|" title="Straight Faced :|" data-shortname=":|" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dejavu, post: 1153948, member: 182475"] kan sum one give give me help wed this . i have done al this to reset a PowerMac g4 but this is not working for me , Reboot the machine into single user mode (CMD+S on boot) Mount the root file system as read/write (mount -uw /) Edit the SUDOERS file (visudo) Change all occurences of "(ALL) ALL" to "NOPASSWD: ALL" (Note: You'll need to know your way around the text editor vi -- check out the vi tutorial in MacOS X Command Line 101 for more. -TMO) Save the SUDOERS file and reboot (ESC-w, ESC-q, 'reboot') Open a terminal and execute the command 'sudo passwd root' :| can i do ? tanks:| [/QUOTE]
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