On Fri, 19 May 2006, John Golitsis wrote:
Sorry folks, I'm sure this question has been asked and answered a million
times, so if someone can simply point me in the right direction, it would be
much appreciated.
We have a Mac notebook computer that a previous employee used to use and he's
refusing to give us the admin password to Yellow Dog. Is there a way to
reset this? There is info we need on this machine, so we can't simply
reformat and re-install.
I think you can boot into single-user mode and set the password. I forget
how to do this (thankfully, it's been a long time since I've needed to),
so you may want to do a little Google confirmation of my advice.
Probably something like "linux single" at the boot prompt would do it. If
not, you could try "linux init=/bin/bash" at the boot prompt, which should
just run the bash shell. From there, you can remount the HD as
read-write with "mount -o remount,rw /", then reset the root password with
the "passwd" command, and then remount the HD as read-only with "mount -o
remount,ro /". (That last step may be superfluous, but it can't hurt).
Then just reboot the computer and log in as root.
Alternatively, you can download Gentoo's live PPC CD and boot off of that.
I've used it for trouble shooting before, and it has worked nicely for
that.
HTH,
Jason
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