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		alttag on Sept 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cracking OSX Lion passwords Reverting the pw assumes you knew it in the first place, and thus didn't need to change/reset it.

caf on Sept 19, 2011 [–]

The article also shows how you can obtain the current password hash without knowing the password - so you might be able to stash that away, and then surgically put the old hash back once you're root.

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