NOTE: The following information has been publicly disclosed on a number of Internet sites, and is not a new find. I’m simply repeating it here for the sake of completeness.
- Click Restart at the login window
- While the computer is restarting, hold down “Command-S” until you see text scrolling through the window. This boots the computer into single user mode.
- At the Localhost% prompt type:
/sbin/mount -uw / /sbin/SystemStarter
You will then see various services starting up.
- When the Localhost% prompt reappears, type:
passwd root
It will then ask you to type the new root password twice, so do so.
- After entering the new password, type:
reboot
At the login window, enter username root wih the new password. Once you are connected, you can use the Multiple Users application (/Applications/Utilities) to change your normal user’s password, or create a new user account.
