Crack Password Hashes in OS X Lion
This guide will NOT WORK with Mountain Lion 10.8. Please view our new, updated guide for Cracking Passwords in Mac OS X Mountain Lion
This guide is an updated version of our extremely popular guide, Decrypt OS X User Account Passwords. The guide has been updated to work with Lion 10.7.
Requirements
Physical access to the machine.
If you need to crack passwords on Tiger, Leopard, or Snow Leopard, please use our tried-and-true Decrypt OS X User Account Passwords guide.
Procedure
1. Gain Root OR Admin Access
If you don’t have access to an administrator already, you need to acquire root access.
If you don’t have admin access, boot the computer into Single-User Mode by holding CMD+S on startup, mount the drive, and type the command:
This guide will NOT WORK with Mountain Lion 10.8. Please view our new, updated guide for Cracking Passwords in Mac OS X Mountain Lion
This guide is an updated version of our extremely popular guide, Decrypt OS X User Account Passwords. The guide has been updated to work with Lion 10.7.
Requirements
Physical access to the machine.
If you need to crack passwords on Tiger, Leopard, or Snow Leopard, please use our tried-and-true Decrypt OS X User Account Passwords guide.
Procedure
1. Gain Root OR Admin Access
If you don’t have access to an administrator already, you need to acquire root access.
If you don’t have admin access, boot the computer into Single-User Mode by holding CMD+S on startup, mount the drive, and type the command:
开机启动时按 CMD+S ,进入命令行模式.