Dave, I would delete the user accounts on the iMacs and take them back to Apple Setup Assistant - this leaves the installed software and OS intact and allows you to create a new admin account.
Here is how. Boot into single user mode by restarting your Mac and holding down Apple>S at the same time until you see the black screen with white text. Now type in the following commands at the root prompt (mind the spaces between characters!): /sbin/mount -uw / rm -R /var/db/netinfo rm -R /var/db/dhcpclient rm -R /var/db/samba rm -R /var/db/.AppleSetupDone NOW, you will need to see the names of the user accounts that exist on the drive so type this: cd Users THEN type: ls YOU will see a list of account names, plus one called shared. NOW type the following commands: rm -R /Users/name of user account Of course substitute the name of user account for the short name you saw in the list. Repeat that last line for each user account on the Mac. Now type: shutdown -h now and this will shut down the Mac. When you turn it back on it will be like you first turned it on out of the box and you will be able to configure Panther as the administrator of the system. Jason On Apr 2, 12:11 pm, Dave Sheppard <ds...@nl.rogers.com> wrote: > I recently acquired several G3 I-Mac's, and all are running Panther o/s. I > need to modify them to reflect my personal parameters, but the system keeps > asking me for user (administrator) name and password. It also keeps warning > me that the disk is "almost full and that i need to delete files to free up > space. > I can't even send e-mail until the administrator allows changes, but alas- no > password. Anybody know any way around this with out wiping the whole system > and reinstalling Panther ( which i bought but it came on DVD which I can't > run - CD's only). > Dave Sheppard -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and 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 leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
