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How To Reset Forgotten Admin Password OS X 10.11 El Capitan

Oct 24, 2015 by iHash 4 Comments

Passwords for all user accounts can be reset and changed when booted from the Recovery Partition on OS X.

This tutorial can be used for OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.9 Mavericks and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

Step 1.  Boot into Recovery Partition

When booting starts press command + R and hold until you see startup screen

Step 2. Go to Utilies>Terminal

Recovery boot

Step 3. Insert command “resetpassword” and hit enter (For those that cannot see hard drive insert command “mount –uw /” first)

recovery boot terminal

Step 4. On Reset password screen, select the volume hard drive and user account that you need to reset password. Type 2 times new password and hint and press Save.

Reset Forgotten Admin Password

You will get confirmation screen and details about  the keychain account. 

Reset Forgotten Admin Password 2

This procedure don’t reset Keychain password, you will need old password to open it or to create new one.

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Comments

  1. Tiffany says

    Jul 21, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    What if after you type in resetpassword it brings up the box that you reset your password in but there is not a hard drive in the top box area and there are no users listed?

    Reply
    • Anonymous says

      Aug 2, 2016 at 12:06 pm

      Type “mount -h uw /” first 🙂

      Reply
      • Anonymous says

        Aug 2, 2016 at 12:10 pm

        “mount -uw /”

        Reply
  2. Jim says

    Sep 11, 2016 at 2:00 am

    How is this secure at all??? Anyone can do this to a stolen mac and get anyone’s files!

    Reply

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