Password HELP!!!

[Rahieb]

My G3 passwords are all lost! IS THERE ANYWAY TO GET EM BACK?
I can't install anything! No updates! Nada!

Please help......please?

Shane

 

[Ric]

Hi there and welcome !

do you mean your User Password ?

If so boot of the OS CD or DVD and Choose Reset Password from the Installer menu (or Utilities menu in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger).

This will allow you to reset the main account or Admin password !

regards

Ric

 

[Ric]

This Apple Doc may help !

regards

Ric

 

[Rahieb]

I'm trying to reset the master password. No GOOD!!!
I've tried a startup disk to reset but it doesnt seem to have worked.

I am an idiot it seems so bear with me.

Thanks

 

[Ric]

Hi there,

don't put yourself down ;-)

Computers have a way of making us all feel like that sometimes !!!

What version of OS X are you running ?

How many user accounts are on that Mac ?

regards

Ric

 

[Rahieb]

Ver 10.3.9

Also are the passwords case sens?

I got a note book and I'm trying all combinations of what it can be for now. There's got to be a better way!!

 

[Ric]

Hi there,

passwords are case sensitive...

The Boot disk should work, I've never had it fail yet.



Give this a go ! Boot from the Disk holding down the c key

Regards

Ric

 

[Rahieb]

I'll try again. Looks like what i tried but here we go..................

 

[Ric]

No worrys !

regards

Ric

 

[dick]

So Ric,

do tell us how you insert all those sreen shots. I know the Command-Shift-3 and
Command-Shift-4 commands, but are just just dragging & drop into the message area?

dick

 

[Ric]

Hi dick,

You can add the images inline by pressing the "Insert Image" button...

You are then presented with a dialog box, where you need to enter the URL of the image...

There are various "Image Hosting" websites where you can set up an account, such as...

http://imageshack.us/ or http://photobucket.com/

...you need to 'link' to the image files... from a web server !


So once you had an account with one of these companies, you then do a screen grab...send it to your Image Hosting account and link to it here !

If you haven't got an Image host then you can also add the image as an attachment, see below.

If I see images added as attachments, I will change them to inline pics by adding them to my space...

Hope that helps !

regards

Ric