Password doesn't work after account login!

I recently needed to use the OS X recovery option to restore Mavericks on a partition that I had upgraded to Yosemite for testing (Yes, I had a backup but Carbon Copy Cloner still scheduled its backup of the Mav to its BU volume. Grr! )
So after the recovery downgrade from 10.10 to 10.9.4 was complete, I logged in to my user account using my regular old password. When I wanted to change the time from PDT to EDT in Sys Prefs, when I clicked the padlock and entered my regular old password, it wouldn't accept it! After several ties it displayed the hint which was the hint I created for the regular old password. Trying to unlock for other activities was also unsuccessful. Double Grr! This was also the case when I tried to change my password.
So any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks friends,
-Tod

First, make sure caps lock is not on.
Another reason why your password might not be recognized is that the keyboard layout (input source) has been switched without your realizing it. You can cycle through the available layouts by pressing the key combination command-space or command-option-space. See this support article.
If the user account is associated with an Apple ID, and you know the Apple ID password, then maybe the Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password.
Otherwise*, start up in Recovery mode. When the OS X Utilities window appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar at the top of the screen—not from any of the items in the OS X Utilities window.
In the window that opens, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window opens. Close the Terminal window to get it out of the way.
Select your startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Follow the prompts to reset the password. You can use the same one if you wish.
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.
You should now be able to log in with the new password, but your Keychain will be reset (empty.) If you've forgotten the Keychain password (which is ordinarily the same as your login password), there's no way to recover it.
*Note: If you've activated FileVault, this procedure doesn't apply. Follow instead these instructions.

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Last edited by TheBigCow7 (2011-09-13 17:57:20)

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