>The Full Story (my apologies for not coming-clean, initially): The >computer is a two year old MacBook Pro, and I am new to Apple >products. My friend configured it to dual boot into Windows XP and >Leopard, using Boot Camp, and now I am locked out of the XP boot. >Does this change the recommendation to use a password reset utility?
Big difference. The method we have been discussing assumes that the passwords are in a particular location. I don't know that this would be the same for a Boot Camp Mac. I don't know anything about Boot Camp as I consider it a crime against nature. If Boot Camp has its XP stuff in a partition dedicated to XP then I would expect the standard XP method would work. You would just have to point the script at the XP partition. Otherwise, with a Mac you are already able to boot the computer into a Unix shell: just hold down the Command and "s" keys while the Mac starts up. Then you would just have to find the right part of XP to skewer. That is probably written down somewhere and a manual version of what those scripts do. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
