Lost User Account Password

[FN-GM]

Some little delight has set a password on my laptop and doesnt know what they changed it to!

 

I am 10562 miles away from my OSX media so unable to reset the password that way.

 

I did a google search and found this:

macosxhints.com - 10.5: Reset a user's password in single user mode

 

Does anyone know if this works?

 

Thanks

 

Z

[kmount]

Yes, it will work.

 

Single user mode is often what's used to reset lost/hacked unix/linux passwords.

[FN-GM]

It did thank god for that!!!

[mac_shinobi]

I was gonna say if that failed am sure you could of gone to an apple store and just borrowed some os x leopard discs in oz just for the sake of resetting your password.