{"id":968,"date":"2012-05-16T07:09:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swildow.darktech.org\/wp\/?p=968"},"modified":"2012-08-13T13:09:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:09:56","slug":"reset-admin-password-on-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"reset admin password on MAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Restart your Mac or Hackintosh.<\/li>\n<li>Continuously press F8 until you see the Darwin boot prompt<\/li>\n<li>Type \u201c-s\u201d without the quotation marks and press enter.<\/li>\n<li>You will soon reach a command prompt<\/li>\n<li>Note the lines written to the console about fsck and mount<\/li>\n<li><strong>Type :<\/strong>\u00a0\/sbin\/fsck -fy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Type :<\/strong>\u00a0\/sbin\/mount \u2013 uw \/ this will mount your file system<\/li>\n<li>thats it now you are in \u201cSingle User Mode\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\/sbin\/fsck -y [enter]<br \/>\n\/sbin\/mount -uaw [enter]<br \/>\npasswd [usernamem] (put the administrators username, no the word username and take off the brackets)<br \/>\ntype in a new password at prompt the two times it asks<br \/>\ntype reboot<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihackintosh.com\/2009\/06\/everything-about-single-user-mode-in-mac-os-x\/\">http:\/\/www.ihackintosh.com\/2009\/06\/everything-about-single-user-mode-in-mac-os-x\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restart your Mac or Hackintosh. Continuously press F8 until you see the Darwin boot prompt Type \u201c-s\u201d without the quotation marks and press enter. You will soon reach a command prompt Note the lines written to the console about fsck &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=968\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}