How can I change the password on my sons computer without knowing it? he has forgotten the password and I can not update it or do anything without knowing it
how can I change the password on my sons computer? he has forgotten it.
Did you create a second administrator account on his machine? Or is there only one account on his machine?
Alternatively.. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
When the menubar appears select Terminal from the Utilities menu.
Enter resetpassword at the prompt and press RETURN. Follow
instructions in the dialog window that will appear.
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