[Ti] help with 10.4

[Chris Olson]

On Dec 13, 2005, at 9:27 PM, Mark Swanson wrote:

> The larger drive won't recognize my user password or my  
> administrator password.  Should I toss to system folders on the 200  
> and re-intall?

I've had three PowerMac G5's in my department, after being upgraded  
to 10.4.3, that won't accept any username/password combination to log  
in.  Couldn't log in from remote with SSH either.  One of them, after  
being rebooted, started working.

The other two did not.

I tried to start both of them with the Tiger install disc and reset  
the password with no luck.  I booted to single user mode, mounted the  
disk at /, ran /etc/rc to init the system and bring it online, ran  
SystemStarter to start misc system services, then reset the password  
for root.  After reboot I then logged in with the GUI as root and  
reset the user passwords.

The NetInfo database had been hosed on both machines.
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Chris

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