If you are running macOS Sierra or above then read the new post on How to Reset Forgotten macOS Sierra Password? Steps to reset the Admin password in OS X 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.7, 10.6, 10.5, 10.4Ī. Reset Root or admin password in OS X 10.7 – 10.11: System admins responsible for supporting entire organizations and users who bought used Macs are the folks most likely to benefit from this.Using this article you can reset Mac OS X Root password or any of the Admins account password and then you can login with admin or Root account(System Administrator) to reset password for any of the other accounts. A few of the methods floating around the Mac community have been compiled here in one easy-to-reference place. The information in this post is presented with the intention to help people with legitimate reasons for resetting their Mac OS X password. Even if you’re running OS X 10.7 and above check if you have a working recovery partition before moving forward. There are numerous ways to reset admin or root password with no OS X discs.You don’t need to worry to get the recovery disk to reset the password.Normally we reset the admin password using terminal command “Resetpassword” in recovery mode which is available on Mac OS X 10.6.8 and above but OS X 10.6.7 or below does not have recovery partition so we need an OS X installation Disk to get the terminal outside of the Installed OS X to reset the Apple OS X root or admin password.

How would you use this Mac now?You will need to reset its admin account password. Or maybe you purchased a used Mac from someone else and they’ve got it locked down. Let’s say you totally forgot Root (System Administrator) or an Admin account password to log on to your Mac. Forgot Admin account / Root (System Administrator) Password on Mac OS X ?

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