At 2:47 PM -0400 5/3/2009, Brooks Heinlein wrote: >I recently purchased an old iMac that used to be owned by a school, >there are two user accounts, student and teacher, the teacher >(admin) account is password protected and the person I bought it >from doesn't know the password. Is there any way to get around this?
Boot the Mac from the OS X DVD then reset the password. >I was thinking about re-installing the OS, how difficult would that be? Easy. And in fact, that's what you should do. There's no telling what's on that HD or how that system has been abused. I would zero that drive to make sure there are no bad blocks, then do a complete clean installation of the OS. >is there a place I can download the OS for free since it's not the >newest version? Don't pirate the Mac OS. There are many places on the 'net to purchase it. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
