Once you mount the file system, you should be able to use passwd username and then put in the password twice. A second way to reset the login password of an account is to use Reset Password. If FileVault 2 is enabled, you have to enter a password to start up in single user mode, and you can't use Reset Password. Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site the association bonus does not count.
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Viewed k times. My sister bought a used MacBook about 6 months ago and she has lost her password. Alexandre Alexandre 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. In your forth step "dscl. You recommand those steps : 1. Type fsck -fy 2. Type passwd username Is there a way to know the user name? I'm not sure if I should enter the space from the main screen name Thanks a lot!
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Hold command-S on startup. In Run reboot. Open Terminal from the Utilities menu. Run resetpassword , which opens the Reset Password application. Select the volume and account and reset the password. It's usually a matter of personal preference. Anonymous says: Feb 03, AM. Yet another sudo discussion?
But sometimes I tend to use the root account, especially when I have to use lots of admin commands - or write some how-to that should be easy to use. Another option, of course, is to use "sudo -s" or "sudo -i".
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This will turn your shell into a "root shell" so you don't need to enable the root user or hack in "sudo" again and again which can be quite annoying. Anonymous says: May 04, AM. What modifications are needed for I have tested the above info in Snow, however I have a few users in I'm sorry but I can't test that because I don't have a machine running Tiger any more. Anonymous says: Sep 02, PM.
Excellent article, thanks! I just used this on Just wanted to say thanks! The procedure worked just as described. The only thing I'd add is to reboot after all the chown-ing and mv-ing is done. I logged into one of the affected accounts immediately after moving everything around and everything was wonky no Desktop, no Finder, etc.
I'm guessing some processes got confused by the changed UIDs and needed a fresh start. Thanks for this, very handy.
One thing to add is the chown call should be chown -h or if you have any symlinks then they end up beloning to the old userid. I also changed the gid PrimaryGroupID to match and did the same thing for the chgrp call. Anonymous says: Oct 31, AM. For some reason, chown wasn't in my path and couldn't find it since the locatedb wasn't properly loaded. Took me a while to find it but wanted to make sure others could find it easily. Adding it to delicious now!
Anonymous says: Nov 03, PM. Hi all, Anyone can help me with this? Anonymous says: Nov 18, AM. This one might be a little more complete. Also changes owner of symbolic links. Also uses xargs to execute the chown command as few times as possible.
Note I just did this on Lion. Roman says: May 23, PM. Finally, I've updated the guide according to your hint. Thank you! Anonymous says: Jan 04, PM.
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It's very important to use "chown -h" instead of "chown". The link target may have a completely different uid. Right, I've changed the commands. Anonymous says: Jan 21, PM. After a restart it also changed automatically the ownership of the user's files? Or would this only change the user-id and nothing more? Thanks for any hints …. I doubt that this will work, but I haven't checked. Feel free to try and report back :. Anonymous says: Feb 11, AM.
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No, it's not sufficient. Anonymous says: Oct 03, AM. No problems here, but of course you should have an clone or a backup of your system and user stuff. This is a great manual!