[Noisebridge-discuss] hack an account on mac osx

[steve camuti]

you can also just go to the apple store and they will run a nifty little
script that will let you delete any account on the drive without affecting
any of the other accounts... just sayin

-Steve

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:15 PM, arbzed <arbzed at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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