Your Mac is disconnected from the network.To overcome this, you can select the drive mounted via Target Disk mode, press Command-I to produce the drive’s Info window, and enable the option to ignore ownership on the volume (at the bottom of the information window). While you should be able to browse all files on the drive in Target Disk mode, there may be some times when you can’t do this, either because of permissions restrictions or because files are hidden. From here you can manually copy data from the drive or use Apple’s Migration Assistant or Setup Assistant tools to transfer your data. Connect this Mac to another one via either a FireWire or Thunderbolt cable and its hard drive should appear as an external drive to your second Mac. To use Target Disk mode, restart the Mac you wish to access and hold the “T” key when you hear the boot chimes. Use the Info window to ignore ownership on the connected drive.
(If you instead see a Change button next to the Apple ID entry, your ID is already associated.) You can then enable the option to allow resetting your password using an Apple ID. This feature first requires that you’ve associated your Apple ID, which can be done by going to the Users & Groups system preferences, and then clicking the Set button next to the words Apple ID and then supplying your Apple ID and password. In OS X you can bind your user account to your Apple ID and then use it to reset your OS X password if you’ve lost it. Reset the password for your user account by entering the following command (replace “username” with the short name of the desired account) Launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ Now run the following command to load Open Directory (Apple’s account directory service in OS X): When you see the command prompt, enter the following command to put the boot drive into read and write mode: Restart your Mac and hold down Command-S at the boot chimes. To proceed you’ll need to know the short name of the account for which you would like to reset the password, and then perform the following steps: While this account is generally hidden and inaccessible, you can quickly get to it for its administrative capabilities by booting your Mac into single-user mode. Use Single-User modeĮvery Mac has a main user account called “root,” which is the system account that’s used to launch the essential background services required for your Mac to operate.
Log into your administrator account to change another account’s password.
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