Re: System password

From	Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: System password
Date	2020-11-29 22:35 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnrs88gu.16tf.g.kreme@claragold.local> (permalink)
References	<i2hovjF1nhmU1@mid.individual.net> <rq14k9$69p$1@dont-email.me>

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In message <rq14k9$69p$1@dont-email.me> Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:
> On 2020-11-29 6:19 a.m., Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
>> My wife wants me to install Zoom in her computer (MacBook Air, several 
>> years old; OS 10.8.5). Unfortunately she doesn't have any idea what her 
>> system password is -- indeed, she didn't know she even had a system 
>> password. Is there any way to find out? With the Terminal perhaps? I 
>> expect Lewis will know if there is an answer -- anyone else?

> She's never had to log in to the machine? Ever?

> Because the "system password" being requested is just the name and 
> password of a user account with administrator privileges.

> Furthermore, if she has forgotten her password, you could try this:

> use Single User Mode and use command line tools to directly create a new 
> user and make it a member of administrator group:

>  From Stack Exchange:

> <quote>
> First you boot in Single User Mode (Cmd-S at boot). When the system 
> boots up and prompt #root is displayed type following commands:

this is not the way. reset the password as I outlined in another post.
While this multi-step process will work if you get it right, it might
fail spectacularly if you get it even a tiny bit wrong.

> The advantage of this is that you can create another account with 
> administrator privileges without changing your wife's password (which 
> would cause her keychain to be locked; losing all the passwords they 
> usually contain).

If she doesn't know her password, she can’t have added very much to her
keychain.

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System password Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2020-11-29 15:19 +0100
  Re: System password nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-11-29 09:57 -0500
    Re: System password Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2020-11-29 16:15 +0100
      Re: System password Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2020-11-30 09:38 +1300
    Re: System password Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-29 20:54 +0000
      Re: System password nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-11-29 16:04 -0500
        Re: System password Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-11-29 13:43 -0800
          Re: System password Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2020-11-30 09:31 +0100
            Zoom (Was: Re: System password) Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de> - 2020-11-30 10:23 +0000
              Re: Zoom (Was: Re: System password) Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-30 13:24 +0000
                Re: Zoom (Was: Re: System password) Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de> - 2020-12-01 07:37 +0000
                Re: Zoom (Was: Re: System password) Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-12-01 08:52 +0000
        Re: System password Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-29 21:58 +0000
      Re: System password Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2020-11-29 16:30 -0500
  Re: System password Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-29 20:53 +0000
  Re: System password Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-11-29 13:42 -0800
    Re: System password Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-29 22:35 +0000
      Re: System password Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-11-29 14:40 -0800
        Re: System password Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-30 05:06 +0000
          Re: System password Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-11-30 00:24 -0800
            Re: System password Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-30 13:21 +0000
              Re: System password Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-11-30 12:50 -0800
                Re: System password Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-30 22:40 +0000
                Re: System password Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2020-11-30 15:18 -0800
    Re: System password Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2020-11-30 15:25 +1300

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