A Master padlock with “r00t” as password. Español: Un candado marca Master con “r00t” como contraseña. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I think I had written about how you could just boot a Mac into a single user mode to basically reset a password for any user, and by this I really mean any user (i.e., even for an administrator account). You probably would say “OK genius, I can just do that with booting into Mac the normal way, right?” If you remember an administrator password or a user password, then it should not be a problem for you to just boot into Mac normally and change the password. Nonetheless, in this case, I’m talking about a situation when you forget an administrator password specifically, therefore you can’t really use an administrator account to change a normal user password if you also forget the password for a normal user too. Also, when you don’t remember your administrator password, you can’t really update your Mac OS X to a newer version and do more with your administrator account. Unlike before of how I had written only of how to reset an administrator password or any user password on a Mac, this time around I made a video so you can follow my video step by step to reset a password for an administrator account on a Mac. So enjoy the video right after the break!
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