Dear All ­

Happier ending for this one.

iBook came in. Client had bought from eBay to replace a previous iBook (which 
I had been able to back-up before it's death!). Disks with "new" iBook were 
10.2.x, seller had loaded Leopard, but no password provided or findable. 
Can't reset password with OS X 10.2 startup disk, so used my Leoprad to 
reset. But still couldn't login.

However....there is a way, using single-user start-up, to tell the Mac that 
it has never been setup for any user, and thus I was able to set up a new 
Admin user, delete the old Admin user, and return iBook to client with a 
restore of the files and apps from his old machine.


Being cagey about process (but it's not THAT hard to find) and sometimes 
knowing it CAN be done is sufficient. FYIO

-- 
regards
hugh
hugh at clarity point uk point co
(by the sea) (using Hogwasher)

Believe me, my young friend (said the water rat, solemnly), there 
is nothing - absolutely nothing - half as much worth doing as simply 
messing about in boats. Simply messing about. Nothing seems really to 
matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away or whether you 
don't, whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach 
somewhere else, or whether you get anywhere at all, you're always 
busy, and you never do anything in particular.