Help with admi password

I have a mac so x 10.4.11. was given to me by a c-worker. they left the administrate password on the computer and forgot the password. I am unable to update or add my printer to the computer. How can I get the password off. Help!!!

Depending on the vintage, you might call Apple with the Serial# handy & see if they have replacement disks, but that depends on which OS it originally came with, if it came with 10.3 then that wouldn't help with 10.4.
You really need an Install disk to be legal & to do repairs on the HD, etc, so I'd ask if they have it.
But, there's another way in the meantime...
Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD...
http://theappleblog.com/2008/06/22/reset-os-x-password-without-an-os-x-cd/
Admin Hack...
http://www.hackmac.org/?q=node/4
Starts up like the first time you buy a new Mac, but after filling in all that info again, you should have access to the computer and the other Users & files will still be there... give the new User a different name than an existing one.

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I have a Flash site I'm working on that has a private login
area. The login is not meant to be high security, we just want to
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password to.
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Step 1
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