Password Recovery?!

[Dark Dexter]

Ok, I'm repairing an iBook G4 with OS X Tiger. The person I am repairing it for got it from a school or something and dosent have the password. I've booted into single user mode and mounted the harddrive with

/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /

I then try to use 'sh /etc/rc' to start the system daemons and other components but instead of being droped back into the command line interface I get put into a screen with a blue background and a mouse, nothing else. It flashes back to the black command line for like a split second once in a while but the quickly flashes back to the blue screen with the mouse. Is there a text file I edit or something for it not to put me in the GUI but in the single user command line? Or do I just wait a long time and it will put me back in the command line? I'm very fammilar with Unix but I'm more used to linux's init then BSD's starup methods. I intend to use 'passwd username' after to change the password and contiune to work on the machine for her. Help is greatly appreciated!

 

[Dusky]

If you can get ahold of the Tiger CD:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106156

 

[Dark Dexter]

Ok! Thanks for the help but I currently dont have a Tiger disk (My own personal mac is a G3 Powermac running Jaguar) So I found a really weird, but effective way of getting this done if you have a similar problem with the aqua coming up when you 'sh /etc/rc'. Basically, I edited /etc/sudoers and allowed the guest account total terminal access. Just rebooted, signed into guest, opened the terminal, and typed 'sudo passwd username' and it allowed me to change the password! Thanks for the help and sorry for the bother!