OS X Account Password not recognized!!!

quiksan

quiksan

awesomer...
ok, BIG problem here.
I just went into Sys Prefs and updated my account password.
I didn't log out after doing so.
Glad I didn't because I tried running something in Terminal that required my password, and it doesn't recognize it!!!
It won't take my old or my new password.

WHAT DO I DO TO FIX THIS???

I'm afraid to log out, and then be locked out of my system. help!!!!!!!

EDIT: Sorry for posting in the HOW TO forum. Was (still am...) flustered and thought to put it there first.
So, anyone who can help me out here???
 
molte grazie!
my heart has begun beating again...
now I gotta get home and get my cd.

Thank you thank you thank you gia!
 
ok, so that fixed my login password, but somehow Keychain won't take my old or new login password now...

any ideas there???
thx
 
I'm bothered by the fact that Apple includes a utility on their install disks for getting past any password on the machine, even root. Sure, you can use Open Firmware Password, but what were they thinking?
 
Someone would have to be at your computer to use that. If they're at your computer anyway, they're going to get into it, that's just one way they can do it.

You can even get past the Open Firmware password....
 
Yeah, but why make what could take a lot of unix-knowledgable hacking into a five-minute exercise anyone could do?
 
jjeff said:
Yeah, but why make what could take a lot of unix-knowledgable hacking into a five-minute exercise anyone could do?
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because of idiots like me who would've messed up their entire system otherwise!

yeah, it's a little too bad, but I think in any cases where the systems would be in a place where others could readily access them, there'd be administrators who would handle accounts on the machine, not single users who (stupidly I guess, I'm learning slowly...) mess up their one system password and face possibly having to start over fresh.
 
What Darkshadow said just about sums it up. If the "hacker" has physical access to your computer AND an OS X Install CD as well, then they could just make off with the entire computer anyway. Allowing a hacker physical access to a computer is a security violation within itself.

An open firmware password would circumvent this completely -- in order to reset an open firmware password, you need physical access not only to the computer itself, but to the inside of the computer as well (to remove/add RAM to reset the open firmware password).

In order to secure your computer from any and all attempts to reset the admin password and to protect it from having the open firmware reset, simply set an open firmware password, then put a lock on the computer's latch locking mechanism. Voila -- completely password-secure computer. Can't boot from CD, can't remove/add RAM to reset OF, can't do anything but use the computer legitimately with a legitimate password.
 
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