[BNM] Locked out of my MacBook pro

[Simon Atkinson]

Thanks, It looks simple but I don't have the OS boot disk :o(


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[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Joe Aliferis
Sent: 11 December 2008 14:30
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Locked out of my MacBook pro

I believe that, using the OS boot disk, there is a method of editing the 
administrators password

see this article

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_reset_my_mac_os_x_admin_root_password.
html

Joe

> Hi, just bought a macbook off Ebay which came with a Norwegian keyboard
and
> no media , fired her up, got the welcome screen for Leopard, I went though
> some settings like British keyboard, network, my details, username and
> password blah blah. Once all done I hit continue and it asked me to log
in.
> Now it won’t recognise my username / password (I use a complex one but the
> same one mostly) and as I had to type it twice to confirm it in the set up
I
> find it hard to believe I would have typed it wrong twice. I have tried
all
> variations I can think of but no joy.
> The only thing I could think was that the keyboard layout was Norwegian
when
> I entered the password and once setup was complete the keyboard layout
> changed to British. Having looked at both layouts online the characters I
> use seem to be the same on both.
> Anyone got any ideas? (I’m an old Mac user but am not the familiar with
them
> any Longer after using Windows for work for the past god knows how long)
As
> I don’t have the media I cannot just re-install.
>
> TIA
>
> Simon
>
>
>
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