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Forgot username for login!
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: In a Jackalope space, I'm the Jackalope guy...
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****. I"m an idiot. I changed my home mac using 10.2.6 (or .7) from auto login to password only login because I was on a trip for 3 weeks and didn"t want the construction guys fooling with my machine while I was away. Sure enough, I accidently checked the option that makes you hav to put in your login name as well as the password. Guess what? I forgot that name since I made it 4 years ago...
Like I said...I'm an idiot.
So, is there any way to bypass this? Help needed! 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
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Boot single user mode, (command-s on startup). Then look in /Users and see the name of the user folder in there. That's your short name which you use for login.
If you forgot your password too, you will have to reset it using the OSX install CD (boot from it, it's in the menu).
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Mac Pro 2x 2.66 GHz Dual core, Apple TV 160GB, two Windows XP PCs
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Chicago
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OS X is not 4 years old ...
If you boot from an install cd and under installer option chouse to reset the password, it will show you the list of all available users on the system partition
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Originally posted by MrNo:
OS X is not 4 years old ...
It's been quite a while since I installed, but doesn't it convert your OS 9 users?
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: The City Of Diamonds
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Originally posted by Chuckit:
It's been quite a while since I installed, but doesn't it convert your OS 9 users?
no
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
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Or try to remember it some registration dialoges might have used it as default for your registration name ... did it also start with jacka?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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Originally posted by The Jackalope:
****. I"m an idiot. I changed my home mac using 10.2.6 (or .7) from auto login to password only login because I was on a trip for 3 weeks and didn"t want the construction guys fooling with my machine while I was away. Sure enough, I accidently checked the option that makes you hav to put in your login name as well as the password. Guess what? I forgot that name since I made it 4 years ago...
Like I said...I'm an idiot.
So, is there any way to bypass this? Help needed!
Can't you remember your long name either? You see that every time you update or do something else that requires authentication.
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JLL
- My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
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