Re: [help!] can't login after a forced shutdown

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In article <1173771797.235023.24140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Asorka <asorka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yesterday I forced a shutdown on my iMac G5.
Today I can't login: it appears a different login window (it seems two
windows getting over each other) and it don't accept my password!

I did a reboot by my install dvd and I repaired the disk and the
permissinons it (there were errors) but it didn't solve my problmem.

Then I did another reboot for resetting the password (I didn't forget
it) but when I choice the disk it tells me "no available users", so I
can't reset anything. The log install output is:

localhost : Open /Volumes/iMac G5/var/db/netinfo/local.nidb failed :
No Root Record in Datastore

I can't go on and I'm a little be worried about it.


Thanks in advance for the help
and please excuse my poor english :)


FWIW, http://iwiring.net:8000/ has the following tip at -- 28 November
2006 HowTo change a lost Mac OS X root password w/o using the Installer
DVD

Boot into single user mode and then:

% mount -uw / % nicl -raw /var/db/netinfo/local.nidb create
/users/root passwd `openssl passwd newr00tpass` % reboot

The above will replace the root password in NetInfo with a standard
'crypt' style password. For good measure after rebooting reset it
using an appropriate tool to a shadow password.


Sorry I can't give the direct URL... iwiring.net is strange and the
long direct URL doesn't work for me.

Cheers,

Darrell

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