10.5 default username and password after install

[Jason Joines]

Shawn Erickson wrote:
> 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



     Yes it was 10.5 server on an intel xserve.

     OK, well that sounds like it would help fix the problem in the 
future without a full reinstall.  However, it would be much better if 
the installer waited on input from the user.  If it's not going to do 
that, the next best thing would be to know what username and password it 
had assigned.  Was it supposed to do what it did by design or was it 
supposed to wait?  What username and password did it set?


Jason
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