[Noisebridge-discuss] hack an account on mac osx

[daniela Steinsapir]

 That is awesome Thank you!

 Will do or otherwise will  look for older versions to reinstall.

D

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:13 PM, nicoles <nicoletbn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually, you can boot the machine in single-user mode, (hold cmd-s while
> booting) which gives you a root shell, from there you should be able to set
> the root password with the passwd command. Log back in normally, go to the
> accounts pane, and use root/yournewpassword to make yourself admin and
> delete accounts as you wish!
>
> ~nicoles
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 14:05, Rubin Abdi wrote:
>
>> If you have access to an admin account you can simply delete the other
>> users from the Accounts Preferences Pane from the System Preferences window.
>>
>> If you have no access to an admin account your only option is to simply
>> reformat the drive and reinstall OSX.
>>
>> On 2009/04/06 13:23, daniela Steinsapir wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>>  does someone knows how to erase an account on Mac osx without the
>>> password?
>>>
>>>  I got an old laptop from a friend that is traveling and I would like
>>> to erase all the accounts but I do not have the passwords.
>>>
>>>  Anybody knows the key to do it?
>>>
>>>  Please answer me off list.
>>>
>>>  Thanks,
>>>
>>> D
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