Reseting passwords on G3s

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mthoward91@hotmail.com - 27 Sep 2005 21:44 GMT

I have a customer that picked up 7 G3s from his school district that
were on the list of computers to be retired. They have a password on
them, and no one knows at the school what the password was. How do I
go in and reset the password to a default or remove it altogether.

Michael

mhoward@joeyscomputers.com

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Mike Berger - 27 Sep 2005 22:35 GMT

Boot from CD and reload the operating system.

> I have a customer that picked up 7 G3s from his school district that
> were on the list of computers to be retired. They have a password on
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> mhoward@joeyscomputers.com

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Tom Harrington - 28 Sep 2005 00:16 GMT

> I have a customer that picked up 7 G3s from his school district that
> were on the list of computers to be retired. They have a password on
> them, and no one knows at the school what the password was. How do I
> go in and reset the password to a default or remove it altogether.

In the circumstances it sounds like either you or the customer should
just wipe the drives clean and start from scratch. Boot from an OS
install CD, erase the disk, and install.

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Neill Massello - 28 Sep 2005 01:03 GMT

Is this the standard user login or the open firmware password? See
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106482>.

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Reseting passwords on G3s