The password of your macOS user account is also known as your login password. It's the password that you use to log in to your Mac and make certain changes, such as installing software.
Change your password
If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can change your password in Users & Groups preferences:
Now, enter: To reset the root password on Mountain Lion (10.8) (not tested with other OS's) follow these instructions. Shutdown your Mac, then turn it on. Immediately after pressing the power button press and hold 'Command (Apple) key + S'. This will boot you into single user mode. After you or your Mac administrator resets the password of your macOS user account, your Mac might ask you to update your keychain password or enter the password of your login keychain.It might also tell you that the system was unable to unlock your login keychain. That's because your login keychain is still using your old password. Contact your admin if you don't have permission to change your password. You know your password, but you want to change it. You can only do this if your admin has given you permission to update your password in Office 365. Go to www.office.com/signin and sign in with your work or school account username and existing password. Jun 09, 2014 This video shows how to modify the password to any account using Mac OS X 10.6 or above (Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and Yosemite). The command that must be. Can't remember your Mac’s administrator account password? This guide showing you how to reset a Mac’s admin account password is just what you need.
Reset your password
If you don't remember your password, or it isn't working, you might be able to reset it using one of the methods described below. But first try these simpler solutions:
Reset using your Apple ID
In some macOS versions, you can use your Apple ID to reset your login password. At the login screen, keep entering a password until you see a message saying that you can reset your password using Apple ID. If you don't see the message after three attempts, your account isn't set up to allow resetting with Apple ID.
Reset using another admin account
If you know the name and password of an admin account on your Mac, you can use that account to reset the password.
Reset using the Reset Password assistant (FileVault must be on)
If FileVault is turned on, you might be able to reset your password using the Reset Password assistant:
Reset using your Recovery Key (FileVault must be on)
If FileVault is turned on and you have a FileVault Recovery Key, you can use that key to reset your password.
If you can't log in with your new password after restarting your Mac, take these additional steps:
Create a new login keychain, if necessary
After resetting your password and logging back in to your account, you might see an alert that the system was unable to unlock your login keychain. This is expected, because the passwords for your user account and login keychain no longer match. Just click the Create New Keychain button in the alert.
If you didn't see an alert about your login keychain, or you see other messages asking for your old password, reset your keychain manually:
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If you still can't log in
If you still can't log in with your password, contact Apple Support for help.
Forgot Your Account Password
For Snow Leopard and earlier
For Lion/Mountain Lion
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
When the menubar appears select Terminal from the Utilities menu.
Enter resetpassword at the prompt and press RETURN. Follow
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instructions in the dialog window that will appear.
Or see Reset a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Password and
OS X Lion- Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password.
If you are unable to boot from an installer DVD:
(these will only work on Snow Leopard or earlier)
1. Boot to Safe Mode by restarting and after the chime press and hold down
the COMMAND-S keys until a black screen with white type appears.
2. At the prompt, type the following commands pressing return after each
command line:
/sbin/fsck -yf
If you do not receive a 'Filesystem OK' message then repeat this command
until you do. If after seven tries you still do not receive a 'Filesystem OK'
message, then the system is corrupted and needs to be reinstalled.
mount -uw /
cd /private/var/db/netinfo
mv local.nidb local.old
rm ./.AppleSetupDone
shutdown -r now
The second-to-last command above will cause OS X to think that the operating system is newly installed, and when the new owner starts up the computer it will send him/her to the startup wizard where he/she can start a new user without reinstalling.
This last method does not actually change a password. It simply removes the user accounts and lets you create an initial admin account as if the computer were new out of the box.
Reset Admin Password Using The Terminal
You can reset the password by printing out (or writing down) and carefully following these steps.
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First, find the short name of the admin user on the machine. The easiest way of doing this is by looking at what the directory is called in the Users folder.
Now, start in Single-user Mode. It should boot into a command line.
Enter these exact lines. Press RETURN after each.
mount -uw /
ifconfig lo0 up
cd /var/db/netinfo
netinfod -s local
Now you'll need that short name. Enter 'passwd', a space, and the short name of the admin. For example, if the admin was rather prosaically called 'imadmin', you would enter 'passwd imadmin'.
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The computer will now prompt you to change the password for 'lmadmin' (or whatever the short name was). Go ahead and enter a new password.
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Now, enter:
sync
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reboot
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and the machine will reboot. The admin password should now be changed.
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