Yes, thanks Brian. However, I don't know why it happened, and that really bothers me.
Since screaming for help, I've looked at my problem with a little more calm.....why this occurred is not yet known, but just *what* happened is that my entire home dir (user/admin) got corrupted or deleted, and it should have been protected by system default with a password alert dialog, and that never appeared. -Very- strange indeed. All basic stuff is in place on the backup volume (my internal), but the custom stuff of personal prefs, well, everything usually put into the User's home dir is lost. To start over, I've copied over the needed items from the backup User home dir, but there's now a lot of little bits-&-pieces of reconstruction to be done. Not having a thourough backup is owned by me, but why this happened in the first place is.. PLONK! Jeez, where's the crystal ball when you really need one. Any insight still welcomed. Thx. all. Regards, Russ Preston On Sep 16, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Brian ONeal wrote: > I think you may be able to boot from your install up cd an there is > a utility to allow you to change the root password. > I think. > I've never had to do this before. > > > Brian O' > > > On Sep 16, 2006, at 4:01 AM, R. D. Preston wrote: > > Well now . . . > > --just d/l v6.5.8 of PGPi Mac version from best server. > --prior to d/l, warning said Stuffit Expander v5.5 needed, > and will not work if v6.0.1. > -- --I had v6.5.1 of Stuffit Expander, so tried with newer > version installed. > --when launch of Expander occurs, version check alerts > to available v10. said yes. > --proceeded with d/l and install of Stuffit Expander v10 > from website (not Stuffit Std.). > --prompted to logout or reboot at finish. > --chose logout, and logout proceeds to login window. > --login atttempt. > -- --get prompt "Can't login to (owner-admin) account > at this time." > > ( What the F*** ! ) > > --decide to reboot; same problem. > --try Zap PRAM with next reboot. > --same problem occurrs > --tried safeboot. diddlesquat. > --reboot into backup volume, as yet unchanged by update. > --backup volume/disk seems OK. > --sending this eMail to GroupList. > > H E L P !! P L E A S E !! > > Regards, > Russ Preston > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting is September 26. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting is September 26. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting is September 26. Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
