Anything he could do from Target Disk Mode he could do more simply from a single-user boot (command-s). But he'd have to know the right commands, and how many other linked data structures he'd have to change to make the user account work. If you have absolutely no other choice, I'd do a single-user boot, then use "chpass newpassword usershortname", and hope it does enough to at least let you in.
> On Aug 3, 2017, at 10:26 AM, Chris Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not sure there’s a recovery partition on this machine since I think it’s been > upgraded from somewhere around Snow Leopard, unless one of the upgrades > created one somewhere. > > Instead could he use target disk mode in any way? > > Chris > >> On 3 Aug 2017, at 18:19, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The standard way is to boot into the recovery partition, use the Tools >> option to launch Terminal, then there is a simple command (not chpass, >> something custom) you use to reset the password. Sorry I don't remember the >> exact command, but I'm positive this is Googleable. >> >>> On Aug 3, 2017, at 9:17 AM, Chris Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all: >>> >>> Is it possible to re-set the admin password on El-Cap? I know it was >>> possible to do a re-set on some versions of OSX but can’t find any >>> information on how to do it on El-Cap. >>> >>> >>> Chris >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >> > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
