![]() I suggest to refrain from making any changes to the Recovery HD and to unmount it after you copied the two files. ![]() You can then copy them to your utilities folder or anywhere you like to have easy access to them in the future. There you'll find the two password utilities. Enter /sbin/mount -wu / when the prompt appears to mount the filesystem Enter rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone Enter reboot At this point, it should run the colorful little setup utility that ran when the machine was new. In the mounted image, open the Applications folder and then the Utilities folder. Boot into single user mode by holding command-S on boot up. Numerous lines of status messages will scroll by. Immediately press and hold the Command (Apple) and the S keys until you see white text appear. Press the power button to start the computer. If you did that already, all you have to do is to open the Disk Utility, select the Recovery HD, click on Mount it, double-click on the mounted Recovery HD, switch to show invisible files as well (use the terminal or any of the countless little apps to do this - I use HideSwitch), open the folder on the Recovery HD, double-click on the BaseSystem.dmg image. Reboot into Single User mode by restarting the Mac and holding Command-S while the system comes back up. Easier Version: (for PPC Mac - not sure about Intel) First, boot into single-user mode: 1. You can get permanent easy access to the two Apple password utilities in the Recovery HD, if you have followed an earlier hint here about how to ad the Debug menu to the Disk utility and have then enabled the Show Every Partition in the Disk Utility.
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