10.5 default username and password after install

[Shawn Erickson]

On 11/1/07, Jason Joines <joines at okstate.edu> wrote:
>      Yesterday I started an install of 10.5.

Mac OS X 10.5 server of client?

> It was a fresh install as
> I instructed it to erase the disk.  It was still running when I left for
> the day.  At that time I had not yet been prompted to enter any user
> information although I had entered the serial number.

I guess this is a server install?

>  I don't remember
> exactly what screen it was at when I left.  When I returned this morning
> I was presented with a login screen.  I tried admin and root with blank
> passwords, the hardware serial number and various other values.

Put the install DVD back in the system and boot from it. Once booted
you should be able to locate a menu item that lets you reset the
password (sorry don't have a system booted from the DVD in front of me
to give you the exact menu location/name).

-Shawn