Hey guys, my sister bought a used mac about 6 months ago and she has lost her password.
I never really worked with a mac before, but I managed to find a certain way to change the admin password, althought I'm getting errors.
Here is the procedure I tried first :
1 Boot into single user mode (press Command-S at power on)
2 Type fsck -fy
3 Type mount -uw /
4 Type launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist
5 Type dscl . -passwd /Users/username password, replacing username with the targeted user and password with the desired password.
6 Reboot
but when I try the step 4, it says "launch_msg(): Socket is not connected"...
I don't know what version the mac is, if you know a way to get that information from the single user mode since that's all I'm able to access right now.
If there is any Mac Guru here, I badly need your help, my sister has work on this laptop and she has to finish it this week-end.
*I'm not trying to hack this computer, I'm trying to retrieve/change my sister's old password, it is very important for her she has lots of things to complete prior monday.
I never really worked with a mac before, but I managed to find a certain way to change the admin password, althought I'm getting errors.
Here is the procedure I tried first :
1 Boot into single user mode (press Command-S at power on)
2 Type fsck -fy
3 Type mount -uw /
4 Type launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist
5 Type dscl . -passwd /Users/username password, replacing username with the targeted user and password with the desired password.
6 Reboot
but when I try the step 4, it says "launch_msg(): Socket is not connected"...
I don't know what version the mac is, if you know a way to get that information from the single user mode since that's all I'm able to access right now.
If there is any Mac Guru here, I badly need your help, my sister has work on this laptop and she has to finish it this week-end.
*I'm not trying to hack this computer, I'm trying to retrieve/change my sister's old password, it is very important for her she has lots of things to complete prior monday.
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