Hi Stephen,
First off I would probably try any of the obvious ways you might have mis-entered it – it will be simpler/easier to correct the wrong password if you can actually log in with the wrong password to correct your error. However,I think you only get three tries… Assuming you cannot “guess” what you entered, if the iMac has another User Account, with admin privileges, you can login as that user and then change the password on her account using system preferences. Otherwise Google comes up with many suggestions but these Apple support articles seems to cover various methods: https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/mac-help/mh35902/mac https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202860 However, I also saw this https://www.cleverfiles.com/help/recover-mac-login.html which includes another method: Recover Your Mac Login To be able to recover your Mac login password, do the following steps: 1. Restart your Mac. 2. While it’s loading back, hold down the Command + R keys until it boots to recovery mode. 3. Once inside recovery mode, click on Utilities at the top menu bar. Then click on Terminal. 4. Once Terminal loads, type the command “resetpassword” and hit Enter. The process is fairly simple, just run through the prompts as if you’ve forgotten your password, and you should see a list of accounts that can be used to log into your Mac. You should as well see some other accounts depending on how your company has it set up. NOTE: This will only work if you do not have FileVault and/or a Firmware password enabled in your Mac computer; or if you need to login via Ethernet to your Company’s Server or network. You can use this process to also reset your password for Mac OS X or if you have lost your admin password. And this https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reset-lost-mac-password/ also gives a list of methods (mostly covered above). Also remember that after resetting the password, you way well end up with keychain access problems - this is covered in one of the Apple support articles above at: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202860#keychain Note that all the above is just gleaned from the web – I am not endorsing any particular method & don’t know if any are only appropriate to certain versions of OSX. HTH Cheers, Neil From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Stephen Chape <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, 19 May 2020 at 18:24 To: WAMUG Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: New iMac will not accept Login ? Hi folks. Just set up my daughter’s brand new iMac today. Transferred data from her Time Machine (from her old iMac). All went well until I tried to login using her usual password. At the start of set-up I was asked what that should be. So I typed in the one she would be familiar with (same as the old iMac). I guess I may have entered it incorrectly, but I thought it asked for it twice to confirm. Is there any way round this please ??? Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings & Unsubscribe -
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