A friend got himself a second-hand iMac but couldn’t log in because he didn’t have the Apple Account credentials.

Create them an account at account.apple.com, the shit already starts there, get ready to confirm the email once and your friends’ phone like, literally, a gazillion times.

The Steps

• Turn on the iMac AND
• Press and hold Command + R until it boots into Recovery Mode
• Reinstall macOS

If that worked great! But it will probably fail with a 403 Forbidden when trying to download the OS.

• Turn off
• Turn on AND
• Press and hold Command + S until it boots into a terminal

mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.applesetupdone
shutdown -h now

Reboot

At this point, you’re almost there!

You’ll probably get stuck when trying to accept the Terms & Conditions:

• Go back
• Do NOT login into your iCloud Apple Account
• Accept the Terms & Conditions

Once in the OS, you can go to System > iCloud to login the Apple Account.
At that point you can also kill the old user.

Conclusion

Best not to tell anyone you are in IT 😃

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