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From: Brian Gordon on 31 May 2010 19:05
With no known provocation, the system (10.4.11, PPC) will no longer accept
the system/master password I have used for the last several years. Any
simple (or at least reasonable) way to reset it if nobody knows what it
thinks the present one is?

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From: nospam on 31 May 2010 19:19
In article <hu1fce$ku9$1(a)panix1.panix.com>, Brian Gordon
<briang(a)panix.com> wrote:

> With no known provocation, the system (10.4.11, PPC) will no longer accept
> the system/master password I have used for the last several years. Any
> simple (or at least reasonable) way to reset it if nobody knows what it
> thinks the present one is?

boot the system dvd and reset it.
From: Phillip Jones on 31 May 2010 22:13
nospam wrote:
> In article<hu1fce$ku9$1(a)panix1.panix.com>, Brian Gordon
> <briang(a)panix.com> wrote:
>
>> With no known provocation, the system (10.4.11, PPC) will no longer accept
>> the system/master password I have used for the last several years. Any
>> simple (or at least reasonable) way to reset it if nobody knows what it
>> thinks the present one is?
>
> boot the system DVD and reset it.
Make sure you use the exact one you had been using. Write it down so you
can remember it Capitalization counts. And your passwords should be
retained. However, if your off so much as a letter or number or
capitalization of a letter is wrong then your passwords (in your Key
Chain will be gone. Now passwords in FireFox, ThunderBird, or SeaMonkey
Should be fine.

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From: Tim McNamara on 31 May 2010 23:38
In article <hu1fce$ku9$1(a)panix1.panix.com>,
briang(a)panix.com (Brian Gordon) wrote:

> With no known provocation, the system (10.4.11, PPC) will no longer
> accept the system/master password I have used for the last several
> years. Any simple (or at least reasonable) way to reset it if nobody
> knows what it thinks the present one is?

Do you mean the login password for your account, or did you encrypt the
disk using File Vault?
From: Brian Gordon on 1 Jun 2010 11:41
Just as perplexing, it suddenly remembered the password and it works just fine
now. I realize that sounds like an operator error, but I can type THAT
password in my sleep, so I'm confident it wasn't a data entry problem.

Aren't computers marvelous devices? Thanks to all who offered help.

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