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MacBook Pro – Change Account Password

I have a MacBook Pro 1,1 Intel Core Duo 1.83MHz and I’ve completely forgotten my account password. I have also misplaced the recovery CD’s. In the end I downloaded Tiger OS and I don’t know whether it’s because the Laptop isn’t compatible with that CD but it won’t boot from it…

Is there away of dropping down to the UNIX command prompt and changing the password from there? I really don’t want to have to order replacement recovery CD’s from Apple.

Your help will be much appreciated, Thanks
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It works out that the model of my MacBook Pro isn't supported/integrated in the latest release of a retail version Tiger OS X 10.4.6. Therefore I had to purchase new recovery discs as there seemed to be no other way round this.

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The latest retail version of OS X 10.4 is the Universal Binary 10.4.7 , which supports both Intel and PPC (G5, G4, G3) processors.
I’ve been into the Apple store and the latest is 10.4.6
I have a macbook pro and i have forgotten my password. i have the install cd's but they are not working when i try to boot from the os disk to reset my user accounts. i have also tried to go to the command prompt screen but when i try ti reset the pass word the mac states that the socket is not connected what do I do !?!!!???