[BNM] Locked out of my MacBook pro

[Simon Atkinson]

Thanks again , ls /Users returns .localized    Shared 


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[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Sevan / Venture37
Sent: 11 December 2008 16:43
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Locked out of my MacBook pro

Simon Atkinson wrote:
> Thanks for that, the boot device was mounted as read only but once I got
> past that it appears my username must have been typed wrong as the short
> name "simonatkinson" comes back unknown.
> On normal boot it say "Simon Atkinson's mac) I guess that’s not linked to
> the short name though, any more pointers if I cant guess how I spelt the
> username.
> Feel like a right idiot.

ls /Users
will tell you the shortname as its used as the name for your home directory.


Sevan
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