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
Aug 03, 2009 Reset 10.4 Tiger password. Power on or restart your Mac. At the chime (or grey screen if your chime is turned off), hold down Command+S on your keyboard to enter single-user mode. Type sh /etc/rc and press Enter/Return. Type passwd username and replace “username” with the short name of the user account for which you’d like to reset the. Lost or forgot Windows 7 password on your Mac and don’t have a reset disk? There are many Windows password recovery tools (such as Ophcrack, Offline NT Password & Register Editor) that could be used to crack Windows 7 password on a PC, but the major issue is that they are incompatible with Mac EFI Firmware. PCUnlocker is a recovery boot CD which can be used to remove Windows 8, 7, Vista. Jan 24, 2020 If you know the name and password of an admin account on your Mac, you can use that account to reset the password. Log in with the name and password of the other admin account. Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, then click Users & Groups. Click, then enter the admin name and password again. Select your user name from the list of users.
If you know your password and can use it to log in to your account, you can change your password in Users & Groups preferences:
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:
If you still can't log in
If you still can't log in with your password, contact Apple Support for help.
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10.5: Reset a user's password in single user mode
This looks like a shorter method than the similar one that Apple describes at
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306840 ..which has you first delete, then change, the old password.
10.5: Reset a user's password in single user mode
Hmmm this article does only delete a part of a user's record, the AuthAuthority value, in fact. This article is useful if you have a user created in 10.2.x and migrated in 10.5.
Beginning with 10.3, Apple changed the way passwords are stored for more security. Before 10.3, passwords were stored in the NetInfo database, in the users entries, using the unsecure crypt hash. Starting with 10.3, passwords are using stronger hashes (SHA-1 and beginning with 10.4 a Salted-SHA1) and they are no longer stored in the users entries but in /private/var/db/shadow/hash, in a file which is named with each user's GeneratedUID (not the old unix UID, be careful). This folder is only accessible to root and the AuthAuthority attribute tells the system which kind of password you have. So, if your user was created before 10.3 and you have migrated it, you may want to do what this KB article explains.
10.5: Reset a user's password in single user mode
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The dscl command portion of this hint will work in 10.4 - I just used it to remotely reset admin passwords on several machines via ARD.
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10.5: Reset a user's password in single user mode
Once you mount the file system, can't you just use passwd <username> ?
Of course neither method will change the user's login keychain password. ![]()
10.5: Reset a user's password in single user mode
10.5: Reset a user's password in single user mode
Hi there, I don't think passwd would change the password. The passwd command will change the password in /etc/passwd. But Mac OS X doesn't rely on /etc/passwd for passwords, it relies on Directory Service and you have to use the dscl commande to change things in Directory Service.
10.5: Reset a user's password in single user mode
passwd will change the user's password in whatever way the system has been set up. Unix systems don't all use /etc/passwd, actually most standalone systems use /etc/shadow not /etc/passwd. Most networked systems use ldap or kerberos or even opendirectory. If passwd has been tailored correctly to the mac it should change the user's password correctly. Maybe not the keychain access password though.
N.B. I haven't tried using passwd in 10.5.
I did just the following after rebooting to single user mode in 10.5 and it worked:
After the next reboot my machine didn't automatically login, even though it is configured to do so, and it prompted me for the keychain password in order join my wireless network, but it did honor the new password and it sounds like you can subsequently reset the password in System Preferences to change the keychain password.
10.5: Reset a user's password in single user mode
You don't have to worry about the Keychain password. Once you change the user's password and can log into the computer all need to do is simply go into the Accounts preference pane and change the password there to either the new password or something different if you so choose. That action will then automatically change the Keychain Password. I've done this several hundred times on Macs from 10.0 through 10.4.11 I haven't yet had to change a password on a Leopard box but I'm sure it will work just the same.
--- Tino XIII
10.5: Reset a user's password in single user mode
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work with 10.5. I just did this and now can't access the login keychain (OS 10.5.6). Unfortunately, I don't think there's any way around this.
Aside from Open Firmware/EFI passwords, you can configure your Mac so that the root password must be entered in order to access Single User Mode. If your root account is disabled, then it is impossible to enter the root password, and Single User Mode cannot be started.
To do this, the console and ttys must be marked as insecure in /etc/ttys: 1. Log in as administrator 2. Open Terminal 3. cd /etc 4. sudo cp ttys ttys.old (backs up previous ttys config). 5. sudo pico ttys 6. Replace all occurrences of the word 'secure' with 'insecure' at any lines that do not begin with a '#' 7. Exit, saving changes. These instructions are from the Apple Mac OS X Security Configuration manual.
This procedure works except that the password for login.keychain remains lost. What will reset that? Thanks!
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