Hi, so am I correct in thinking what is the point of setting a password if it is this easy to reset? Max
> On 17 Jan 2015, at 7:46 pm, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > Earlier today, a friend of mine locked herself out of her Mac running > Yosemite. That is to say, she could not remember her MacBook Air User > account login password; and, to make matters worse, she declined the setup > option of being able to use her Apple ID in order to let her reset it. > > Fortunately, I was able to locate an article that describes how to reset an > Administrative password from the Recovery Partition. > > The link to the original article is located at the bottom of this post. > > Here are the steps I took, via VoiceOver, in order to reset her password and > get her up and running: > > 1. > Restart the Mac in Recovery Mode by holding down Command+R while powering on > the computer. Wait until you hear the Startup chime before releasing these > keys. This will force the Mac to boot into OS X on the Recovery Partition > that was created when you installed OS X 10.7 or later. > > 2. > When booting is complete, from the Menu Bar, open Utilities and select > Terminal. Don't worry. You won't have to do anything exotic on the Unix > command line. > > 3. > In the terminal window type in "resetpassword" (without the quote marks) and > hit Return. A new window will open. > > 4. > Select the disk containing the user account. In most cases, this will be > Macintosh HD. > > 5. > Select the desired user account name. > > 6. > Enter the new password in the first edit field and then re-enter it in the > second edit field located just beneath it. A password hint is optional. > > 7. > Click the Save button. > > 8. > Go back to the Apple Menu at the top and select either Shutdown or Restart. > If all went well, when the Mac restarts normally, you'll be able to login to > the administrator account with the new password. > > The link to the original article is: > http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/os-x-yosemite-how-to-reset-your-admin > istrator-password > > Mark > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
