anthony-clarke
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Hi kids
I'm posting this from OS9.2 on a titanium powerbook 667mhz because I've locked myself out of OS X 10.2.1 (both systems on a single partition).
And I want to get back in.
The story so far (as briefly as possible) . . .
I was logged in as administrator and setting user privileges for my son's account in OS X. Then separately, I used the 'get info' command from the drop down menu to lock an external 30GB LaCie Pocket Drive firewire hard disk; this was because the user acount capabilities did not seem to extend to this drive ie all the files on were still accessible (I'm a little hazy on the exact terminology here because, since I am locked out, I may be confusing the terms between OS X and 9.2).
Well anyway, limiting read/write privileges on the external disk to just me as administrator did the trick. No problem so far.
Naturally I went a step too far and decided to apply the same process to the internal hard disk. I made myself the owner and only I had read/write privileges. I logged out.
Then, and you can see what's coming, I tried to log in as my son and failed miserably to do so the progress rainbow just glowed at me smugly.
Restarting put me into a blue screen with spinning rainbow or a command line screen which invited me to login. Which, of course, I failed to do (it did not like my login name/password). In any event, even if I had managed to log in, I would not have had the faintest idea what to do.
The next step was to restart and Cmd S into the single user shell and . . . well I'm at the extreme limit of my knowledge here; I've browsed 'most everywhere to see if someone has posted a solution to the problem but I've not seen it replicated.
So here I am in OS 9.2.2 and it's rather like an old girlfriend that I still like but no longer fancy.
Any advice gratefully accepted I really don't want to have to build the system from scratch.
Thanks in advance
Anthony
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I'm posting this from OS9.2 on a titanium powerbook 667mhz because I've locked myself out of OS X 10.2.1 (both systems on a single partition).
And I want to get back in.
The story so far (as briefly as possible) . . .
I was logged in as administrator and setting user privileges for my son's account in OS X. Then separately, I used the 'get info' command from the drop down menu to lock an external 30GB LaCie Pocket Drive firewire hard disk; this was because the user acount capabilities did not seem to extend to this drive ie all the files on were still accessible (I'm a little hazy on the exact terminology here because, since I am locked out, I may be confusing the terms between OS X and 9.2).
Well anyway, limiting read/write privileges on the external disk to just me as administrator did the trick. No problem so far.
Naturally I went a step too far and decided to apply the same process to the internal hard disk. I made myself the owner and only I had read/write privileges. I logged out.
Then, and you can see what's coming, I tried to log in as my son and failed miserably to do so the progress rainbow just glowed at me smugly.
Restarting put me into a blue screen with spinning rainbow or a command line screen which invited me to login. Which, of course, I failed to do (it did not like my login name/password). In any event, even if I had managed to log in, I would not have had the faintest idea what to do.
The next step was to restart and Cmd S into the single user shell and . . . well I'm at the extreme limit of my knowledge here; I've browsed 'most everywhere to see if someone has posted a solution to the problem but I've not seen it replicated.
So here I am in OS 9.2.2 and it's rather like an old girlfriend that I still like but no longer fancy.
Any advice gratefully accepted I really don't want to have to build the system from scratch.
Thanks in advance
Anthony
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