> On Mar 20, 2017, at 8:36 AM, Julia Brinckloe <jmbri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://tidbits.com/article/14437 > > Scroll down to keychain password. Hope it helps.
Just a tip: if you do have to go the Single User route, the instructions there are incomplete: • Reboot into Single User mode by restarting the Mac and holding Command-S while the system comes back up. Numerous lines of status messages will scroll by. • Once you have a command-line prompt, enter this command to mount the root Mac OS X drive as writable, so you can make changes to the filesystem: mount -uw / You really want to do a ‘fsck -fy' command first. Fortunately OS X tells you that when you boot into single user mode. <http://www.everythingmacintosh.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/single_user_mode_fschk.gif> I repeat the fsck command until it reports that no changes were made to the file system before I mount the volume for read/write access. 99.999% of the time this means running it only once or twice. If it comes up reporting errors on the second run, there’s likely something wrong with the disk. Navigating single user mode is a useful tool; you can use it to ‘break into’ a Mac you don’t have a password for, just do the above, then delete the file /var/db/.AppleSetupDone and reboot. The Mac now thinks that it’s never been set up and walks you through creating an admin account. All the other users, applications, setup, etc are retained. I do this with new laptops where I work: I set up the mac with our standard IT support local account, install all the required apps, printers, VPN, etc, then delete that file and hand it to the end user. They can set up the account name they want and password, so we never have to write those down ;-) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.