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Retrieving admin password in OSX
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: UK
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My little sis has forgotten her admin Password in 10.2, is there anyway to find out what it is or get it back?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Chico, CA and Carlsbad, CA.
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Originally posted by roders:
My little sis has forgotten her admin Password in 10.2, is there anyway to find out what it is or get it back?
Nope. But you can reset it by booting up from the Mac OS X install CD (disc 1) and choosing "Reset Password" from the File Menu.
If there is more than one administrator user on her machine (you, for example)... log into the machine as you then open up Terminal.app (in the Utilities folder) and type:
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sudo passwd your_sisters_username
That will ask you for your password (so it can run the passwd utility as an administrator user... then you will be prompted to change the password for whatever username you specified after the passwd command.
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"In Nomine Patris, Et Fili, Et Spiritus Sancti"
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2000
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Thanx Vmuch 4 the info! 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2001
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Originally posted by roders:
Thanx Vmuch 4 the info!
Glad it helped
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
...If there is more than one administrator user on her machine (you, for example)... log into the machine as you then open up Terminal.app (in the Utilities folder) and type:
Code:
sudo passwd your_sisters_username
That will ask you for your password (so it can run the passwd utility as an administrator user... then you will be prompted to change the password for whatever username you specified after the passwd command.
Be advised... This will not reset your keychain password. I just did this for a machine at work and we had to recreate his keychain since we couldn't find the old password that a previous user had set up. His machine wouldn't automatically log him in nor would it automatically map drives that required passwords elsewhere on the network. Basically, he was entering three passwords and cancelling a fourth to get in after changing his password this way.
That being said, this was a lifesaver. Thanks, [APi]TheMan.
You can delete the keychain in the users/USERNAME/Library/Keychains folder and then simply make the connections again, saving them to your keycahain and it will recreate it.
If someone knows a way to break this file open and/or change the keychain password without knowing it, I'd love to hear about it.
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