Thus I am now in the same predicament as all these others, however, despite trying method one and two I am getting nowhere. 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. I had a hard drive crash about a month ago, had a new one installed (thank God for AppleCare). These two methods should work when booting from a Mavericks, Mountain Lion, or USB Lion install drive too, but whenever possible you will find it is much quicker to use the Recovery disk that is already active on all normal OS X installations. Once logged into your original administrative account you can then return to User & Groups and delete the temporary admin account you created. You can now login to the original user account with the new password you just set. Close out System Preferences and reboot.Select your original user account from the left side Users list, and then click on the “Reset Password” button on the right.Click on the lock icon in the lower left corner and authenticate, allowing you to make changes to user accounts.Open “System Preferences” and click on “Users & Groups”.You won’t see any of your familiar files or settings yet, and this is normal, because you have to reset the original password. Then reboot either through the menu item or by typing ‘reboot’ into the command line.įollow the setup procedure as usual, create the new administrative account, and wait for Mac OS X to boot as usual into the new user account. You can then login to that new administrative account and reset your original account password, or just copy your old files over if that’s what you’d rather do.įrom the Recovery Drive’s Terminal, type: In this case, you can still delete the AppleSetup file which forces the “Welcome to Mac OS X” setup assistant to run again, thus allowing you to create a new administrative account. Much like prior versions of Mac OS X, the newest OS X releases share a more untraditional and technical approach to resetting a password for user accounts. Method 2 – Delete AppleSetupDone and Create a New Administrative Account The above method is by far the easiest, but if it’s unavailable for some reason, you can choose this secondary trick. Why the change to the Terminal method with newer versions of Mac OS? Probably for increased security, particularly now that recovery partitions are standard with Macs. This replaces the “Reset Password” menu item that used to be in place prior to OS X, which was around in Snow Leopard and before, and one of two original methods of resetting a forgotten password through more technical ways.
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