[Cube] Help - lost the owner user account

[Ken Johnson]

No help.  I followed the instructions, but do not get the "Localhost 
%" prompt - I get "Localhost:/ root", and the sbin commands do  
nothing.  Maybe that script was for an earlier (pre 10.4) version of  
MacOS.

Ken

On May 12, 2006, at 7:41 AM, atoa wrote:

> Have you looked here:
>
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20001217230925152
>
> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Ken Johnson wrote:
>
>> I just upgraded from 10.3.9 to 10.4.4.  On my own Cube (3rd such  
>> upgrade) I used the option of holding down the "C" key while  
>> booting (the DVD was already in the drive) & starting from the DVD.
>>
>> Now, my owner account is either corrupt or missing.  Any action  
>> that requires a password is rejected (my password doesn't work)  
>> and if I log out (as me) my name isn't even shown on the logon  
>> list.  Another name is there - but that is not a sys administrator  
>> account.
>>
>> So I cannot make any changes (like upgrading to 10.4.6).  Any  
>> ideas???
>>
>> Ken Johnson
>>