On 12 Sep 2011, at 13:07 , Macs R We wrote: > > On Sep 12, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Charles Dyer wrote: > >> I haven't had an Apple laptop in a _long_ time. How do you set the firmware >> password on a modern Mac laptop? > > You can extract the "Firmware Password Utility" app from an invisible folder > on the startup DVD, prior to Lion (which has no DVD). Not up to date on > where you get it now, but it can't be too hard.
Well... the only copy of the utility that I can find on Apple's site is at <http://support.apple.com/kb/DL675> and that's v1.0.2, posted in Dec 2001. Somehow I doubt that this is a Universal app. The note says to check the DVD that ships with the machine. This may be difficult with Lion, as it seems that no DVD ships with new machines and Lion. A call to Apple establishes that no-one who is not in Tech Support seems to know how to set the firmware password (so far as I can see there aren't very many who even know what a firmware password is) and Tech Support won't speak to me if I don't already own the machine in question. A quick Google turns up <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3195869?start=0&tstart=0> which states that the utility is now available if you boot into the Lion Recovery Volume. If so, this makes it substantially less secure, as now _anyone_ who has access to the machine can reboot into the LRV and reset the password without a hassle. I hope that this is in error. I really do._______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
