I was thinking the exact same thing. As anyone could just boot the system and then hit command+R. I mean, surely there has to be some way to prevent just anyone getting ahold of your mac and trying this little trick. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor.
[email protected] Phone: (704) 256-8010. ----- Original Message ----- From: Traci Duncan To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 11:48 AM Subject: Re: Locked out I hope this isn’t a silly question, but does this mean anyone could just overwrite the Mac’s log in password? That doesn’t sound very secure. Thank you, Traci On Jun 7, 2016, at 8:28 AM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, You can usually use the Application Chooser to navigate these panels. VO-f1-f1, down to the app then right and down to the specific window. Occasionally, you may need to click the physical mouse to get focus into non-responding areas. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 7, 2016, at 03:33, Simon Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote: If the user is an admin on the machine then you can reset the password using the terminal from within the recovery console I’ve done this a number of times but the problem I did have is when the reset password screan goes to the back of the open windows and then I required sighted assistance to bring it forward in to focus. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Hudson Sent: Tuesday, 7 June 2016 11:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Locked out Hello ET, and sounds like a complete reinstall is in order for his Mac I'm not for sure about another way to reset the password or username for that matter and less he gets added assistance once he's booted into terminal. 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