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If You Must Reset an Administrator Password
Using the Mac OS X Server installation disc, you can change the password of a user
account that has administrator privileges, including the system administrator (root or
superuser) account.
Important: Because a user with the installation disc can gain unrestricted access to
your server, restrict physical access to the server hardware.
To reset an administrator password:
1 Start up from Mac OS X Server Install Disc 1.
2 When the Installer appears, choose Installer > Reset Password.
3 Select the hard disk volume that contains the administrator account whose password
you want to reset.
4 From the pop-up menu, enter a new password, choose the administrator account, and
click Save.
The system administrator account is the root user (superuser) account. Don’t confuse
this account with a normal administrator account.
Avoid changing the password of predened user accounts. For more information
about predened user accounts, see User Management.
Note: This procedure changes the password of the administrator account in the server’s
local directory domain. It does not change the password of an administrator account in
the server’s shared directory domain (/LDAPv3/127.0.0.1), if the server has one.
If you know the password of an administrator account in the local domain, you can
change the password of any other administrator account in the local directory domain
by using Workgroup Manager instead of this procedure. For more information, see
“Changing a User’s Password” on page 105.