Mac OS X Hints - A community- built collection of OS X hints. This is my take/an update on las. It is applicable to any system 1. ![]() ![]() Open Terminal from the Utilities option in the menubar. In the new Terminal window, type the following. This will bring up the Password Reset utility. Click Macintosh HD or whatever your HDD is called. You'll notice the only user account that's available is root. Enter a password you'd like to use/remember, though it doesn't really matter as we'll be disabling root and removing this password later. Click save, close the password reset utility and go back to working in Terminal. Now you'll want to enter the following command. Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/private/var/db/. Apple. Setup. Done. This will create the file on Macintosh HD that tells the computer it has completed the setup so you're able to skip the process and login with the root account we just enabled. You should be greeted by the login screen with an option that says Other. Click Other, enter root as the username and the password you chose to login. ![]() ![]() MacOS brings Siri to Mac. Along with new ways to enjoy your photos, shop more securely online, and work more seamlessly between devices. MAC OS X OSX Troubleshooting 10.9 Mavericks 10.8 Lion 10.7 Snow Leopard 10.6 10.5 Tiger 10.4 Panther 10.3 Jaguar 10.2 Free Tutorial White Paper Basic Apple. New Custom Windows 8 Themes! The following theme is a dark shell theme inspired by Windows 8. ![]() Also keep in mind that any preference changes you make will only apply to the root user, so there's no sense in wasting any time customizing the look, feel and general operation of the computer. Enter the following code. Apple. Setup. Done. This will remove the file we originally created and re- enable the setup assistant to help create the new/first user on the Mac. This can be found in Users & Groups in System Preferences. ![]() Click Login Options, then click Join.. You should then see the option Open Directory Utility. As a note, this can be done while logged in as root. Close Directory Utility and restart the computer, booting back into to your install media or Recovery Partition. Open up Terminal one last time and enter. Once the Password Reset utility has appeared, click the root user once more. ![]() Instead of changing the password, however, simply click the Reset button to reset Home Folder ACLs. ![]()
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