Reset a lost OS X password
If you’ve forgotten your Mac’s admin account password, don’t worry. Assuming you haven’t locked out OpenFirmware, it’s a pretty simple task to change your password back to something you know.
Here’s how:
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If you’ve forgotten your Mac’s admin account password, don’t worry. Assuming you haven’t locked out OpenFirmware, it’s a pretty simple task to change your password back to something you know.
Here’s how:
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1. Go to url : http://ursite.com/index.php?option=com_user&view=reset&layout=confirm 2. Write into field "token" char ' and Click OK. 3. Write new password for admin 4. Go to url : http://ursite.com/administrator/ 5. Login admin with new password If you enter ' in token field then query will look like : "SELECT id FROM jos_users WHERE block = 0 AND activation = '' "
Another way:
UPDATE `jos_users` SET `password` = MD5( ‘new_password‘ ) WHERE `jos_users`.`username` = “admin” ;
Where :
“new_password” – replace this with the new password you wish to use.
“admin” – replace this if your admin username is different.
5 Click on the Go button to submit th
by LysergicBliss
A cardinal rule of computer security is that once an attacker has
acquired physical access to a machine, it is generally trivial for
that attacker to fully compromise the system. As technology
improves, this is becoming less the case, but for now, if an attacker
has physical access to a machine, the attacker can generally breach
its security.
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