[Hidden-tech] retrieve MacBook Pro password for installng printer

Kelly Albrecht kelly at left-click.us
Fri Mar 25 11:13:59 EDT 2011



http://lifehacker.com/#!278898/reset-your-lost-os-x-password



On Mar 25, 2011, at 11:09 AM, <dstevens at tryandfindit.com> wrote:

> Good Morning All,
> 
> Thanks for the responses... here is what we have:
> 
> 1. We tried no password...no luck
> 2. We tried to guess the password from the "hint" that is given.... no luck
> 3. My client is currently looking for the DVD..... so far.... no luck
> 4. Does anyone know where I can get a DVD?
> 5. Kelly suggested "do it from Single user mode with the passwd command." but I am not sure what you mean?
> 
> thanks,
> don
> 
> TFI Enterprises
> Don Stevens
> 785 Williams Street, # 142
> Longmeadow, Ma 01106
> Office: 413.209.8333
> Cell: 860.614.4153
> Email: dstevens at tryandfindIT.com
>  
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] retrieve MacBook Pro password for installng
> printer
> From: Kelly Albrecht <kelly at left-click.us>
> Date: Fri, March 25, 2011 10:25 am
> To: <dstevens at tryandfindit.com>
> Cc: hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
> 
> If "there is no password" and pressing enter at the password prompt doesn't get you in, you need to boot from an install disk and reset the password, or do it from Single user mode with the passwd command.
> 
> Doing this will break their Keychain if they don't know their keychain password, and they will need to reset it and start over saving passwords.
> 
> 
> On Mar 25, 2011, at 8:41 AM, <dstevens at tryandfindit.com> wrote:
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>> Good Morning All,
>> 
>> I am trying to install a printer for a MacBook Pro,
>> and I keep getting prompted for a password.
>> However, my client tells me "there is no password"
>> I am logged on as the Admin account, the only other account there is guest.
>> 
>> Does anyone know how to get around this, or retrieve the password?
>> 
>> thanks,
>> don
>> 
>> TFI Enterprises
>> Don Stevens
>> 785 Williams Street, # 142
>> Longmeadow, Ma 01106
>> Office: 413.209.8333
>> Cell: 860.614.4153
>> Email: dstevens at tryandfindIT.com
>> 
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