Method 1 – Reset a Lost Mac OS X Password with Recovery Mode

OK, so here's a pickle.

Reset Any Mac OS X Password without Administrative Access or Losing Data

What if the password you can't remember is your administrator password, and it's the only administrator account on your Mac? That'll mean that when you try to log in as a different user, you can't even unlock the System Preferences pane because you don't know the only existing administrator password!


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You're totally screwed, right? Well, maybe, but not where your Mac is concerned. If you set things up ahead of time, you can use your Apple ID to reset that password, and I wrote an article on how to do that a while back. But if you didn't configure that before you forgot the password, you're still OK, because there's a super-secret ninja way to get around those restrictions.

Reset a Mac OS X Mavericks or Mountain Lion Password

You're going to need to log in to your Mac's Recovery System, and you do that by holding down Command-R while your machine's restarting. Bear with me—as far as I know, you can't take screenshots in the Recovery System, and I just couldn't bring myself to take pictures with my phone and use them here. When you see the Apple icon appear on your screen, you can release Command-R. Afterward, you'll get a nifty little program in which you can choose the volume usually "Macintosh HD" containing the user account with the missing password.

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