[BNM] Locked out of my MacBook pro

Chris Billett chris at chrisbillett.net
Thu Dec 11 16:09:14 GMT 2008


Isn't it dscl in Tiger? Or do both work... can't remember when they  
killed nicl

On 11 Dec 2008, at 15:57, Sevan / Venture37 <venture37 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you're running leopard
> reboot the laptop
> hold the "command" key(the key to the left of the space bar) & "S" key
> down on your keyboard to force your system to startup in single user
> mode, once the screen turns black & text goes scrolling pass you can  
> let go.
> once at the prompt do
> passwd yourshortname
> (short name is the lower case version of your username with spaces.)
> set your password & type exit
> if the laptop is running tiger, you can reset the password using the
> nicl utility.
>
>
> Sevan
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