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#Apple mac restart keys password password#

It is rare that, if you use your Mac every day, there comes a time when you do not remember the password you use, however, it may happen that, after a period in which you have not touched your computer, when you want to enter it, you do not remember the password, and therefore, you cannot access, firstly, your Mac and the tasks that you do with it, and secondly, all the information that you have stored in it. Have you forgotten your password? So you can reset it Click on the “Change password” button and follow the instructions on the screen.Select your username from the list of users.From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences, then click Users and Groups.log out from the secondary administrator account.Īfter logging into the system using the new password, the system may ask us to create a new login keyring or change the password of the existing one. That’s all, you can choose one of these methods, the one most suited to your needs, to be able to reset the Administrator password on Mac in case you have forgotten.press the “ Reset password” button. This way we will have the possibility to change the password of the selected account.select the user profile whose password you want to change in the list on the left of the window.click the lock icon to unlock the options. You will be asked to enter the administrator password of the account currently in use.once logged in with the different administrator account, go into System Preferences and then Users and Groups.Log out of your account and log in with the second system administrator user profile.Reset administrator password using a different accountįinally, it is possible to recover the administrator password of our Mac using a different administrator user profile stored in the system. This way, during the system reboot, the newly created password will be applied.

At this point, we access the Apple menu, choose the OS X Utility option and select the item “Exit OS X Utility”. When prompted, we choose to restart the Mac.So we create the new administrator password. We should enter it twice to check its correctness and proceed with its creation.Select the Mac hard disk and then the user account whose password you want to change.

Open the terminal, type the resetpassword command inside the window and press the ENTER key.

At this point the Mac will be started in recovery mode. Then go to the Utility menu and choose the Terminal item.

We continue to hold down the keys until the bar showing the progress of the startup procedure appears on the screen

Restart the Mac by pressing and holding the combination of the cmd + R keys as soon as we hear the classic start signal of the Mac.

In this case, you will need to boot the Mac in Recovery mode.

Reset administrator password using OS X Recovery mode

at this point, we will be asked to enter a new administrator password.Īfter creating a new password, it is very likely that an alert appears indicating that the system could not access the current login keyring. This is a completely normal event, since the new login password and the one that protects the key ring no longer match.

in the login screen we intentionally delete the password 3 times, until we display a message informing us that we can change the password using an Apple ID. (if we do not see it, it means that the function has not been activated).