Great info! Always coming across second hand Macs locked. Now to figure out what to with locked iDevices...
Russell Courtenay Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 15, 2016, at 12:52 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> On Jun 15, 2016, at 8:47 AM, lagunacool <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hell Group- >> A friend gave me, what I think is a 20 in. iMac 6. It belonged to her >> ex-boyfriend whom she does not talk to anymore. The administrative password >> is in his name, so I can not authorize any updates to the system. As >> result, I feel the computer is deteriorating and is able to do less and >> less. (can't do Netflix,Youtube is barely functioning) >> I did try to do the "secret code" that you see online that is supposed to >> allow you to change the password. I've made several attempts at this with >> no success. >> My question is can I buy newer OSX system install disks. wipe the whole >> thing clean and start over with my own new password? I guess the biggest >> question is do you need the old password to be able to install a newer >> version of the OS or am I completely screwed? >> Thanks to anyone who can help with this problem. > > > You don’t even need to do that. > > Start the computer in single user mode by holding down the command and S keys > while starting up. > > You will come up to a purely character screen. > enter (exactly! This is also shown at the prompt when booted in single-user > mode) > > /sbin/fsck -fy > > And hit return. The computer will do things for a while then come back to the > prompt. If it says that changes were made to the disk. run the command again. > (you should be able to hit the up arrow to get to the previous command) > > Once it says no changes have been made enter the following line (again, > exactly!) followed by a return: > > /sbin/mount -uw / > > Then enter: > > rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone > > (Note: the period in front of Apple is important) > > followed by a return > > Then enter: > > reboot > > and return > > to restart the Mac. It will now come up like it’s a brand new Mac and prompt > you to create your user account (which is an admin account). Nothing else > will be changed, but all the files and such under the old admin account will > be under that account. > > Fixing it so that you have access to those files is easy, once you have your > own admin account. > > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group > for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
