Resetting admin password mac 10.8

Now there is no way to disable parental control or create another admin account. What can I do to get out of the tangle? Apple says i have to bring it in to redo the firmware password, which is about 4 hours away i dont want to drive that far, again. I had a hard drive crash about a month ago, had a new one installed thank God for AppleCare. My external hard drive had not successfully stored my time machine for about 3 months so when I restored my old info it loaded up an old adimin password.

Thus I am now in the same predicament as all these others, however, despite trying method one and two I am getting nowhere. I have had to reboot from Timemachine which of coarse puts me back to the old password. How can I get my desktop back after resetting the password without having to reboot with time machine?

All lead back to gray screen unless I spend hours letting it reboot with time machine. Usually you want to hold the required keys down just before the starting up chime sounds. When you […]. I cannot find Utities tool to reset my password.. Any help? My wife is about to throw her new iMac out of the window. It is asking for a password.

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She never put a password on her computer. Seems the computer upgraded itself recently and a password box after bootup is there. No passwords that are remembered work. The Apple ID password does not work.

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Cannot reset without knowing what the password is. Whose stupid idea was this?

Passwords do not assign themselves to Macs or any other computers for that matter. Computers do not think for themselves, they take action based on our commands. To require a password at login is a setting that must have been turned on by someone, perhaps they forgot doing so.

No bother, follow the instructions to reset your password and be on your way. Seems to me that there should be a warning that if you want anything more than to hide something from your baby sister you need to add encryption of some kind because the normal password is but a mere speedbump for thieves and offer NO peace of mind. My mac running Yosemite Why are you booting Windows to reset a Mac password? Yes, create a new administrator account, and delete the one the thieves made.

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Links are in the above article to demonstrate this. Yes the best way to reset a forgot password on a Mac with Lion is to read the instructions above showing how to reset a password in Mac OS X from versions of Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, etc. My Mac Mini uses a generic external keyboard. What are the keys on a generic keyboard that correspond to the Command key and Option key in the above articles please? Name required. Mail will not be published required.

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If you upgraded from Read this Apple support document for more information about FileVault. No Excuse for a Lost Password — Regardless of how or why an administrator password has been lost or forgotten, there are a variety of techniques that you can use to reset it and regain full access to a Mac. Interesting - I hadn't run across that one before. It looks like it creates a new user account as well, though, so it would be good mostly in a situation where you didn't care about the files in the account whose password has been lost. I've always used it for pre-Lion systems where the client had forgotten their login password.

Create a new, temp admin account.

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Use it to remove the other account's password. Remove the temp account. I've never used the Directory Service command line utility because it's fairly more complicated. She had an apple computer dual booted with windows and I removed the windows password but unable to get past the startup screen asking for her apple password. Looks like you're retyping commands and introducing typos is instead of ls. I recommend you use copy and paste instead. Share Facebook Twitter Reddit. Email Address.