NOTE: The following information has been publicly disclosed on a number of Internet sites, and is not a new find. I'm simply repeating it here for the sake of completeness.
Read the detailed section of this article for step-by-step instructions on regaining access to your root account.
Originally posted by QuantumFusion on the MacNN forums, and repeated with slight readbility changes, here are the steps to regain access to root:
- Click Restart at the login window
- While the computer is restarting, hold down "Command-S" until you see text scrolling through the window. This boots the computer into single user mode.
- At the Localhost% prompt type:
/sbin/mount -uw /
You will then see various services starting up.
/sbin/SystemStarter
- When the Localhost% prompt reappears, type:
passwd root
It will then ask you to type the new root password twice, so do so.
- After entering the new password, type:
reboot

