[CUBE] lost JAG password

[Matthew Herrebout]

Yes, I agree single user mode is useful. I bought an iBook for my gf for 
xmas, and before I gave it to her I updated the OS and installed her copy 
of Office x.

Then went into single user mode and by rm-ing, restored the machine to 
just-out-of-the-box condition save for the installs, so that the 
Welcome/Register bit would play as if it was right off the assembly line.

Details here: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7237

I suppose it could have been done another way, but this was simple fast and 
effective.

Matthew
buy-sell-trade-mac
http://www.appleswitcher.com/viewforum.php?f=5

At 12:11 AM 1/23/2003, you wrote:
>simple unix trix.  when you boot into single user mode, you have root 
>privileges, so you can run 'passwd' to reset any user's password on the system.
>
>some folks feel that booting into single user mode should be disabled, but 
>every so often it comes in handy.  and if someone has access to your box, 
>for that long, and would do this - you're fsck'd anyway.
>
>--alan