howto disable autologin from single user mode 10.2.8?

[bossa nova]

One of the guys at work turned on "automatically login as" [username] and then forgetting it was set, deleted the user. The machine now will not login and hangs at a what he says is a white screen.

Is there a way I can delete the preferences for auto login so that the computer starts up and at least gets to the login window? I am guessing nuking the prefs would fix it but I have no idea which one it is. Any suggestions or at least ideas on how to figure out which file it is would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
bossa nova

 

[Natobasso]

I can only guess that you may need to reinstall your OS X system (but don't quote me on this!) Try first booting up with your system install disk, disk 1, and see if you can put the default system/account from the cd to the computer. Maybe that will allow you to boot up normally.

Keep us updated.

 

[bobw]

Try this in Single User

Type: mount -uw /
c. Press Return.
d. Type:
mv /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist preferences2.old