Quote: Originally Posted by pate60
and you know its not stolen how?
I second that.
Also, considering the OS is Unix-based, and considering the way Apple sets up the Unix-handling in the background (shadow passwords etc), it's doubtful that there exists any simple method of getting the password off of it.
Before you dig any farther though, I would recommend checking with Apple to verify the unit's serial # with them, and if the original owner registered, allowing Apple to call them and verify, or see if they can give you some contact info you can use.
Either way, from the sounds of this (got it from a friend of a friend who got it from the back of a truck in an alley) you might just want to trace the unit's lineage as far back as you can to verify all the handoffs were on the up-and-up and whatnot.
Otherwise, it could come back to bite you in the keister. I know. I helped a guy trace back a laptop's original owner from the pics the guy had on there. The customer brought it to me after he bought it from a pawnshop, and he thought all those pictures and documents were a little suspicious. The cool thing was, the thug who stole it from the owner also left his own pics on there, complete with his home address in the background, as well as pics of his hometown. Dude got jailed, victim got data back, customer got $500 thank you, and the laptop, since the victim had already replaced his.
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