[Noisebridge-discuss] hack an account on mac osx

[arbzed]

If it's running an OS X version prior to 10.5, you can just boot to
single-user mode use nutil to access the netinfo database that manages user
accounts, and clobber the admin password.

It takes a bit of googling around to find documentation for nutil, but I
have done this a couple of times and it's pretty straightforward.

There's probably a 10.5 equivalent to this procedure, but they've stopped
using netinfo.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Ani Niow <avniow at gmail.com> wrote:

> One more option I found when I used to repair these...
>
>
> Boot into single user mode, set the drive as writeable using the command
> "mount -uw /" (I think, the command will be written there), then run "rm
> /var/db/.AppleSetupDone", reboot and it'll go through the annoying intro
> movie and it'll let you set up a brand new admin account which will enable
> you to erase or reset passwords to any account.
>
> The .AppleSetupDone file is a plain text document that contains the
> information that you put in during the setup process. When you remove it the
> system thinks that there isn't an admin account and lets you create one.
>
>
>
> -Ani
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:23 PM, daniela Steinsapir <danielast at gmail.com>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
>> --
>> www.danielast.com
>>
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